No matter what you do or how good your plans are, things happen.  They seem to happen at the most trying time and they do, many times, come in 3’s.  Today I discovered rusty streaks of water running down the walls of  the stairway.  It looks like the air conditioner piping broke in the attic.  It’s expected to be 95 degrees in Los Angeles today.  They are announcing a “heat alert” on the radio.  This comes on top of two other event that one had no control over.  This is definitely a test!  First you consider the hot night ahead, then the amount of money needed to correct this hits you.

We all have experiences of things going afoul when we seem to have the least fortitude for them.  No matter what it is, the car, the house, your health, the job, the family it will always come “out of …