Things aren’t always what they seem
A little over three years ago we received a notice from our landlord (we had been renting a house ever since we arrived in California eight years earlier). He notified us that the house we were living in had gone into foreclosure and we were going to have to move in a couple of months. At the time it seemed as if nothing could have been more upsetting. We now had to find another house that met all our needs, spend weeks packing our household possessions, move our office (that was in our home), change all the utilities, unpack at [...]
Things aren’t always what they seem
A little over three years ago we received a notice from our landlord (we had been renting a house ever since we arrived in California eight years earlier). He notified us that the house we were living in had gone into foreclosure and we were going to have to move in a couple of months. At the time it seemed as if nothing could have been more upsetting. We now had to find another house that met all our needs, spend weeks packing our household possessions, move our office (that was in our home), change all the utilities, unpack [...]
Are they really disasters?
How many times have you had a experience that seemed to be a disappointment at the time and that, months or years later, turned out to be a blessing in disguise? I think all of us could think of many such instances. Looking back at such experiences we often realize they weren’t nearly as bad as they seemed. In fact, sometimes they even turned out to have a lot of benefits. Yet at the time they seemed like disasters. What if we didn’t have to wait for months or years to see the value in such experiences? What if it [...]
