Sunday Morning Message - “7 Days”
Good morning and happy Sunday… ;-D
Last Sunday morning I awoke to find out that all of my emails were deleted. And by “all”, I mean all; trash, sent, saved, labels, all mail, and my contacts. First thing I felt was a sense of disbelief, “this really didn’t happen, did it?” But it did. I was bummed that I couldn’t send out the Sunday Morning message, but even more bummed that I had no contacts to tell anyone what happened. It is always a more stressful time of year, even without losing all your emails. Three days later I discovered that wasn’t even the real test: my account had been hacked. My mother called me at five o’clock am yesterday morning to be the first to notify me that I was supposedly in the UK, on an unexpected trip, in need of money and if any one could send me money or call a number (provided) to the hotel where I was staying. If you called the number you were charged a large sum of money. Fully waking up, figuring out what happened, realizing the total damage, changing my password and answering all the emails of friends letting me know, took about 3 hours that morning. Needless to say, I never went back to sleep and it was a challenging day to say the least.
It seems every time we go through something in life, we are taught something. The harder it is to get through, the more we seem to learn, change and grow. The earlier we realize and embrace this, the more we will understand what the true affect will be on our paths.
I learned that anyone using Gmail could lose all his or her emails. I learned you couldn’t retrieve them. I learned you could retrieve your contacts. I learned the more I let go of what I couldn’t control or fix, the easier I got through it. I re-learned, for the tenth time, that the quote “This too shall pass” is so very true. I learned that the more I truly focused on what was positive in my life; whatever was negative had less of an affect on me.
Seven days later I am sending this out to you :-)
I thank you for the opportunity to come into your lives and hopefully positively affect you and your path this past year. I have always deemed it an honor when someone, anyone was willing to read what I wrote. To be able to share what was in my mind, my heart, no matter what it was and put it out there, knowing that it would be received and understood by friends… is truly a blessing in my life.
For that I thank you.
I have made one more Pro – Me decision in that this will be the last Sunday Morning of Two Thousand and Zen. Time away from my computer and the past 7 days will be a true vacation.
May you all have a blessed and Merry Christmas and a Happy & Safe New Year’s!!! :-)
See you in 2011!
peace & God bless
tjd
