All for the best...

My friend got axed from her post in the school where she is working with. Perhaps, she made a couple of mistakes. Perhaps, too much for absolution to happen. Perhaps her best wasn't good enough for such a nerve breaking, death defying, Olympus-bound work that's meant only for the gods and the likes of Superman.

At first, she was adamant and cloaked in denial. Something she uses to protect herself from too much hurt. Indeed, it is understandable. She had been in that school for three years. Three long years. She was there at the very beginning. When the school was still confused about a lot of things - curriculum, policies, etc. Well, at least some of those things are non-existent anymore. Not that they took care of it. It's just not a cause of confusion anymore - that they don't have those things.

Anyway, slowly but surely, she accepted the truth. And found her way out of the stage of self-defense and denial.

Then, last week she told me she is being considered for a position in another school Which is something of a miracle because we are not young anymore. She will be preparing preschool materials. The program is for children with disability. Something she really wants to do.

I told her, Wow. I am so proud of you.

She said,

I was inspired when I saw the brochure of Bahay Pangarap. It is not what man has lost, but what was left that is important. It is not the disability, but the ability. In some ways, we have our own crippling disabilities in our life. But what is important is our ability to live...I think the mystery of God continues to unfold as we continue to journey and search for our place to be of service to others. In spite of our imperfections.

Isn't that tenacious? I would love the kids of Hungry Minds to acquire that kind of resilience. She goes beyond what is now. The clouds may hover in our lives for some time. But they are there just to return water to the earth, to cleanse it and make it whole again.