With the stock market crisis encircling the globe, millions of investors are worried about their financial future. Hopes for funded retirements have vaporized, savings for college education have dwindled, and now pensions are in doubt.

What disaster will come next? Fear cries out for attention.

I find that a long term perspective preserves sanity and hope in turbulent times like this.

Consider weather conditions on earth.

Storms come and go. Hurricanes have their season and then end. Winds sweep through and calm follows. Rain falls in torrents, then green pastures sprout from below. The sun burns during the height of summer, and then yields to the cool of fall.

Mother Nature is not always kind, but every storm has its end, and every disaster has its recovery.

The earth keeps on turning. The seasons keep on coming. The sun keeps on shining, and the earth keeps on renewing. There is always release, always peace to be found after the winds cease and the weather stops churning. There is always good to be found after the worst has appeared.