COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

We recently went for a vacation to Kauai. When I mentioned it to some people in San Francisco, in phone conversations, their response was often, “Isn’t there a fire?” Actually, the fire was in Maui. Driving around, we noticed signs of support for the people in Maui outside of some buildings and in stores, we saw appeals to raise money for the victims of the fires.

On the beach, we met a young woman who escaped the fire in the town of Lahaina along with her eighteen months young son. We heard first-hand about the disaster from her. All her belongings burned down. She was emotionally shaken. Her other two children were still in Maui. She had a friend in Kauai, who lent her a car. People offered her money, and when she went to the store to buy groceries, the store owner did not want to take money from her.

However, for many of us life goes on. In the airport upon arrival, I met a man, who did not cancel his vacation because of the fire, but instead of going to Maui came to Kauai. We all go through misfortunes in our lives. As long as we are alive, let’s count our blessings. One of my blessings is to see beauty and to share it with others. One of nature’s beauties is the National flower of Hawaii – the Yellow Hibiscus.

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