Insight

As I write this our world is experiencing some tumultous times; Israel faces the threat of war with Iranian backed Hezbollah terrorist, the Iraqi conundrum has yet to improve, and North Korea still lears over its neighbors with the threat of nuclear holocaust. It would be easy to retreat into an attitude of fear and hopelessness. That would be easy with these events acting on their own; however, as we all know this is not the only thing that concerns us. There is so much more. Things that may appear trivial to the unempathic, to the uninvolved…
They are very real and very frightening, they often involve change. Change for the better, change for the worse. Only time will allow for the answer to be revealed.

Regardless of the change, regardless of its effect, what ultimately matters is our perception. We can never change the precipitating events that unfold in our lives, nor can we change how it effects us… What we can and must do is change our point of view. With every event that we encounter it is paramount that as the chinese say, find our wie and chi (or chee wee) in these changing moments. The wie and chi, transliterrated means Danger and Opportunity. In ever crisis or life change comes both pain and triumph. It is the triumph that we must begin to emmbrace. As the proverbial saying goes, “what doesnn’t kill us makes us stronger.”