"Accident rules every corner of the universe, except perhaps, the chambers of the human heart." from Snow Falling on Cedars

Life is one choice after another. What comes to us, no matter how hard to bear, still trails the wisps of the decisions we made that brought us to that moment. It is very hard to accept that much responsibility for our own existence. It is much easier to blame our circumstances on something beyond our control--like accidents, which can drop like meteorites into our lives and propel us off into a way of being we would never have willingly chosen for ourselves. We may not have wanted our life to change, but it does and we find we have been given an opportunity to create another way of being in the world beyond our imaginings. In that moment,in the smouldering wreckage of the strike, there exists a fierce grace: once again, we get to choose.