From Despair to Action

I’m naturally very positive, but the challenges lately have been a bit relentless. Haven’t they?

This week I really felt overwhelmed by it all.

Where I live, Brisbane, Australia, is pretty much underwater.

The Italian and I have been locked in for a week now, and our sons can’t get home. One is camped out in our city office; the other is staying with a friend in an apartment that’s had no power for a week….

In the big scheme of things, I have little to complain about. Nonetheless, I felt myself succumbing to the waves of despair as I looked around me. Not only at the devastation here locally, but also at events throughout the world.

Two years of a pandemic has also taken a toll. Two years of not seeing immediate family. Two years of working with business owners who struggled with, or succumbed to the relentless weight that they’ve carried.

Looking at wonderful businesses in my street, where only a rooftop was visible above the filthy water. I wonder how they’ll recover. I watched news coverage of the thousands displaced or without power.

I just felt despair.

So, I took some time out, and I rested… and I reflected and thought.