On Tuesday, as I write this for Wednesday’s daily Shot of Spiritual Espresso, hurricane Milton is barreling across the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida.

The potential impact is really quite terrifying to many.  There’s been a lot made of the fact that one of the weather forecasters in Florida actually started crying on camera when thinking about the potential impact.

My Dad and his wife left the Asheville, North Carolina area where they live to take refuge in Venice, Florida where thy used to live before morning to North Carolina.  When they left last Tuesday they’d been without running water, electricity or internet for 5 days.  At age 87 they’re hauling buckets of water from a stream to be able to flush toilets, rinse dishes and things like that.  They had to abandon all of their house plants and everything in the fridge, the freezer.

It took 2 days for them to reach Venice, FL and then here comes another, more powerful hurricane.  They’ve had to go out to the stores to get water and supplies to hold them over.

I remember what it was like in the early days of the pandemic – waiting in line at the grocery store and looking at empty shelves with so many frightened people all around me.  I remember going grocery shopping for my family and crying at the cash register because I was so grateful that the grocery store staff had come to work that day so I could get food for the family.

Fortunately, the Venice area isn’t being evacuated, but still, we all wish they could avoid the intensity of this situation after having seen the neighborhoods they loved, the stores and restaurants that they enjoyed, the artist’s galleries and other places that they’d been going to for years completely destroyed and wiped out by the flooding and damage in North Carolina.  It seems like it would be nice if all in the south eastern USA could just relax and recover and regroup rather than brace for another storm.

And then on top of all this injury, to learn that there’s been intentional disinformation and misinformation being spread to somehow make the emergency responders and the government look like they’re not doing a good job and that no one cares, it’s really too much.

So, this is a time when the thing that we can do is pray.  True prayer.  Knowing that regardless of the appearances something good is happening.  That, as A Course in Miracles tells us, EVERYTHING works together for good and there are no exceptions except in the opinion of the ego.  There’s a higher wisdom at work, and there’s human consciousness at work, so it’s our job to see everyone involved as both blessed and a blessing, even if it doesn’t seem that way in our perception.

For those who are going through this, and those whose loved ones are in the storm zone, it’s truly helpful to call the angels to assist everyone, including those who are imagining negative outcomes with worry, fear and doubt.  We have the power to be truly helpful and knowing the truth is the most helpful thing we can do.  All minds are joined.

I remember when there was a major hurricane headed towards where my father was in Venice years ago, it turned at the last minute.

We don’t know what anything is for, but still, everything is helpful.

Let’s hold that in our hearts and know that the highest and best is unfolding for all whether we can make sense of it or not!

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