What helps me is living a life of physical and mental discipline.

Physical means making intelligent choices in food and exercise.

Mental means dwelling upon the beautiful and true things and letting love be my guide.

Rather than play victim (or take pleasure or comfort in such a role) I strive to actively face life with integrity and courage.

This means confronting evil as a way of life, just as Ghandi, Buddha, Thoreau, Jesus and Mohammed did.....It means continuing to learn, grow and become everything I can be.

All these great men did exactly that......they stayed close to nature, they walked a lot, they ate healthy foods and they listened for God as wind in the trees, the splash of a raindrop and every birdsong--they smelled God in the flower, the fallen leaves and the moist earth after a rain.

God was with them and in them and was them.

That's what comforts me.