Moving Beyond Despair

During a recent phone conversation about the state of things my friend Peg threw in this comment: “There are no mistakes!”. Crazy at it sounds at first, the comment points to another level of awareness from which it is clear that life affirming adaptations emerge out of dire circumstances. Impermanence and suffering accompany all life. Was it a “mistake” that the collision of a giant asteroid with planet earth wiped out the ancient dinosaurs? Ask the songbird at a nearby bird feeder. Was it a “mistake” that Jesus suffered the kind of death that he did and then demonstrated the power and expansiveness inherent by…