Spacious Hearts

Life's beauties and horrors mingle with strange familiarity. We are the only ones surprised.
Some are able to switch gears quickly and address the devastating new situation with poise and clarity. Others reel from the sucker punch of life's sudden betrayal. Fear and love, desperation and hope, loss and sacrifice all present and accounted for. These serial bedfellows inspire both heroic action and raging impotence.
How do we adjust? Can we adjust? From whence comes the spacious heart that has room to welcome the unexpected?