Marriage Moats-I am Inconsistant
Published: Wed, 09/05/12
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 I drove Benjamin to school today. That is the only time I nab a few minutes of radio listening, and since he has not gone in ten weeks I was yanked back to the BBC report. I heard about the floods in Louisiana, and the power outage in India that affected ten percent of the world's population. Then there was a study of the effects of pesticides on one strain of tomatoes in a single field that is funded for the next one hundred years. I started to hyperventilate about the hurricane, and the boatloads of cash spent on such a slender piece of agriculture, and the Indians stumbling in the night. Then I got home before the loss of oxygen started to affect my driving, and opened my email. One of the messages I get each day is from a woman named Ann who writes about gratitude.
I took a deep breath. Now instead of anxiety I was awash with calm. God is alive and well. He has the tomatoes and the light bulbs well in hand. There is no shortage of luminescence coming from heaven.
They are after all someone else's tomatoes, and someone else's bank account. While I have compassion for the people who walk in darkness
it can be a distraction to rivet my attention to the other side of the globe, when there are actual, warm blooded people across the room.
Mother Teresa had her finger on the pulse of India and she told me to stay home and smile at my own personal husband.
Photo by Kat Gatti
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