What attitude towards life do you have that has already or can set a foundation for inner peace?

A general attitude of trust is an important aspect of peace. And what I take away from this next event would help solidify that in me, despite the damage that the pedophile had and would do. This next incident happened when I was six years old and stands out as molding my attitude about life in general. We had a very serious car accident. My father, mother, brother and I were beginning a vacation. We had our gear on top of the station wagon so that the back seats could be down and my brother and I had room to play games. My brother is ten years older than me. Who knows why we chose Chinese checkers, which is played with marbles. Luckily the marbles didn’t hurt anyone. But the fact that they didn’t is part of what some said was a miracle.

Some terrible crosswinds caught the car and we were rolled over several times. My brother was strong and tall enough to brace his legs against the wheel wells. He put one arm around me and the other against the roof. He was my seat belt so neither of us went flying out the back of the car. In fact, I don’t think anyone had a scratch. The insurance company replaced the car and somehow, we were on the road again the next day. I put this event in here because at that young age I knew the situation was quite serious, but I felt quite safe. I came away with a sense of always being cared for. That sense has added to my general trust. It’s an attitude that no matter how it looks, it always works out.

As I’m writing this book, it shows me how important that car accident turned out to be. Well, not the actual accident, but what I came away from it with. Somehow the re-enforcement of that attitude of things always working out and me always being cared for set a foundation that may have been critical to coping with the devastatingly traumatic events that were to occur occasionally over the next eight years.