Who knows what is good or bad?

Because of the crisis in Greece, L'Officiel, a leading women's magazine in Greece, asked me to write something about being in crisis for their readers  - so I did. And I thought I would share it with you too! I called my little piece... Who knows what is good or bad? And I wrote..." The worst so-called crises of my life – divorce, nervous breakdown, bankruptcy, serious illness – always somehow paved the way for better things. They were all shocking events and each seemed like a catastrophe at the time, but I survived. And I have to admit that each of these traumatic events signalled the start of something new and better (even though I couldn’t see it at the time). The truth is the “good” was there all along, hidden in the so-called “bad”. It just took me a while to discover it. But slowly I did because each crisis forced me to slow down and ask questions like what is important in life? Is it our money, our jobs, our survival? Is it our health, our families, our loved ones? And what about the common good, what about our country, the welfare of the world order? What is really important? And what about our conscious contact with our Higher Power? And what about life itself? What about the miracle of just being alive? What about the wonder of this present moment? What about the fact that we are breathing, seeing, walking around, and able to take in the gifts that are everywhere available right now… Maybe this is the gift of crisis – that it makes us stop up, slow down, ask questions and notice the Goodness of life in this very moment. Maybe this is the deeper meaning we can’t see right now.
   So who knows what is good or bad? Maybe our worst crises are just friends, reminding us of all we have forgotten…."