About 5 weeks ago I wrote a post called How Do You Cope? This was part of a Coping Carnival initiated by a blogger Rebecca at her site Here Come The Girls. A few days ago she published a link to my post along with 5 other bloggers' links about how different people cope with the challenges in their lives.
These stories are stories of struggle, survival and joyful living in the face of great challenges.They are truly inspiring.
There is no doubt that first
responders, soldiers and other brave men and women who choose to take on life
threatening jobs to keep us safe are very special people indeed.
They need to
be physically strong, psychologically stable and extremely well trained to
carry out their missions.
Equally however there seems to a piece of them that
needs to be extraordinarily positive, determined, thoughtful and caring in order
to cope with the aftermath of their experiences.
The strength of mind and
spirit in these soldiers seems to be as important as the buffed up muscles in
their torsos and biceps.
After my post How Do You Cope? I received this very poignant
message from Marcy, a breast cancer survivor herself, who had spent the day at
Walter Reed Army Hospital in DC.
With Marcy's permission here is her comment.
I am writing this blog after four days without power in our home, as a result
of the most incredible storm on Friday night. It crashed through the Washington
DC area, devastating lives, damaging a lot of property and leaving millions of
people without power in sweltering 100F weather. One of my friends from out of
state texted me asking,
How are you coping?
About 5 weeks ago I wrote a post called How Do You Cope? This was part of a Coping Carnival initiated by a blogger Rebecca at her site Here Come The Girls. A few days ago she published a link to my post along with 5 other bloggers' links about how different people cope with the challenges in their lives.
