Here’s a truth.
Sometimes the thing you believe in lets you down.
It could be a simple thing.
It could be the biggest thing of your life.
It could be anything.
You are taking a nice, warm, soapy shower; soaking in the goodness of it, the steam rising into your very core, relaxing you, washing away every care. And suddenly the water goes cold. Ice cold.
All these years, you’ve put your trust in that water heater there, down in the corner of the dark, dank basement. You never bothered to wave and say hello when you passed the thing, hundreds of times. No word of thanks. No bow, no Namaste. In fact, you never gave it one thought. Until now. And now, you curse the very thing that has been your friend so many mornings before.
It turns out, it wasn’t even the water heater’s fault.
The gas is out.
There are so many other things we believe in.
In this life.
And we pray.
And sometimes.
We think things are broken.
But.
Maybe they aren’t.
So we breathe. And we try again.
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
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“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
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