Serenity, Travel and Thanksgiving

So, I recently returned from travel to Honduras for business.  I was amazed that I was able to locate my serenity throughout this trip.  It's a country that is very poor, and supposedly very dangerous, which is probably true, but I didn't actually experience danger.  What I did experience where people that are grateful for the top level medical care that the clinic I was installing LED lights into provided them and their families with.

Patience was the word of the week.  The people were lined up at the clinic each morning when we arrived at 8 am, some having traveled over an hour to get there.  Some were there for most of the day waiting patiently to be treated for a variety of medical issues or dental issues.  These people live in homes with no running water, only sporadic electricity and most work in fields picking coffee, bananas, and various other agricultural products.  I saw no tractors only hand plows, horses, a lot of chickens and a lot of cows.  I even got stuck in a traffic jam while cows were crossing the road.

It filled my heart that my team was able to provide the clinic with the opportunity to reserve their power consumption of their generators by replacing the inefficient fluorescent lights with energy efficient LED Tubes.  It also gives them much better lighting and the smiles of the staff were worth every bit of nervousness that I might of initially had.

Now we are ready to observe Thanksgiving and together surrounded by family and friends we should be very thankful that each and every day we are surrounded by light.  We take light for granted and we must strive to find serenity in things that surround us without our thinking about them.

I know that each and every night before I go to sleep I take in a deep breath, release the air along with pent up tension and find the serenity that I misplaced during the hectic day and as I release the tension and locate the serenity I allow my mind to be happy, relaxed and filled with the joy that I have an amazing family, a great home, a loving pet, light that surrounds me and friends that support me.

It's Thanksgiving so let's be filled with joy, happiness, family, friends and live life with serenity each and every day.