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“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” ~ Maya Angelou

In our world today it’s harder and harder to keep a level head. The weather is causing catastrophic losses from which it’s hard to recover. People are hurting and killing each other, having been driven to extremes by events. We suffer losses in our families that leave us feeling hollow, devastated, and hopeless.

With all this, it’s really difficult to try to see the good in the world. Sometimes you really have to search, but there IS still good. People still love each other. Small acts of kindness will bring you to tears. People reach out in whatever way they can to help others.

We may feel helpless to find things we can do that will make a difference. We don’t have a huge amount of money to significantly help people in need. Eaxh of us is one person and there is so much that needs to change.

So what do we do? Throw our hands in the air and feel defeated? Get angry and lash out at the people we feel are doing harmful things?

I think it all starts way down deep inside each of us. We’re all in this world together. We all are overwhelmed from time to time and need to reach out to others for help, for listening, for understanding, for compassion. Others may reach out to us.

We need to act with intention. Start by recognizing all we have and being grateful for it. And then try to spread that gratitude all around us in a light that will surround and comfort others.

Maya Angelou said it beautifully, “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”