Thanks for sharing that, Ebbie: It's a very wise song.

When I look at the things that have shaped me in my life, I think that it's the failures and the mistakes that have changed me the most. Sometimes I feel like a mule that has to be hit between the eyes with a two by four in order to get its attention. Of course, it's the love of others when I couldn't love myself that had the most lasting change. There have been times in my life where I prayed for (and received) pre-hindsight. I think that we all can look back at dark times in our lives and see the good that came from them in hindsight. There've been times when I didn't feel that I had the luxury of waiting years for hindsight. I needed it up front... needed to understand what was good about something that seemed so bad at the time. Through time, I evolved into realizing that understanding will come in its own time. I don't feel that I have to understand everything as it's happening. I believe that all will be revealed when I have been prepared enough to understand. As your song states beautifully, if we can embrace life in all its "goodness" and "badness," and understand that all things can work for our good, with time is takes a lot of anxiety out of life.
I wrote a song many years ago that I'll share...

Pebble, Wheel & Seed

Take a pebble in your hand
Crush it in to a grain of sand
And maybe then you'll understand
Life is never ending

The truth is there for all who yearn
Spin the wheel and watch it turn
All things that pass someday return
Life is in the spinning

Share the water, plant the seed
All who hunger to be freed
And all who ask will be released
Love is the beginning

Jerry