Do You Have a Heart to Face Any Fate?

This is not the blog entry I intended to write today. Then a friend’s husband took his life over the weekend.

We are living in a time of a thunderstorm of frogs. This is a personal thunderstorm for my friend that is going to go on for a long time. No vaccine or booster has yet to be devised by science to protect us from what fate can sometimes bring. This friend must now have the heart to face one of life’s cruelest fates.

The last year and a half in history has left me marveling at what humans can endure and come back from. How we can face what fate brings us and survive. To not be broken. It makes me think of this Longfellow poem:

Let us then be up and doing.

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

 Learn to labor and to wait.