When the Going Gets Tough... in Alaska with Alaska Chick
When things get tough for you, what do you do? When "everything" starts going wrong and it feels like your family, your friends, the job, the world and even God Almighty is disappointed or angry or just plain against you, what do you do? How do you react?
~ I'm bringing this up because I really want to know. I would really like to hear how you handle it. Hey! You guys, as well! We are different critters, that's certainly true. I live in a mostly male-dominated world. ~Any input YOU can give sure would make it easier to understand the strange and mysterious ways you deal.
I learn so much from you all. I can't even begin to express how each one of you have touched my soul (really, what else would you call it?) with each comment you leave, your input into my life. (Thank you☺)
Shit Happens.
It does! We all know that nothing stays the same. Nothing. It can be life, it can be good stuff or the bad stuff or in truth it can just be the day after day stuff.
Life moves forward, into tomorrow, with or without us. You may not even notice the transition from the highs to lows, lows to highs. It, life that is and our perception of it, may just level out . It can fill you up and it can bring you to your knees. The one thing that holds true is tomorrow.
Each day is brand new, never used, never marked by attempts or failures. Living, gives us the opportunity, a chance, to see what comes next. Even the worst, passes, lessons, with time. Sometimes, by waiting. Sometimes, by pushing on and through. By holding on, when there is nothing left except tomorrow's chance.
In 1996, shortly after I was shot, Princess Diana died. The world wept and I was alone for the first time in my life. Shortly after that, Mother Teresa died and I was undergoing the most horrific pain I can only attempt to describe.
When I wasn't crying or screaming through physical therepy trying to learn to walk again or shaking my metaphysical fists at fate or curled up in an exhausted ball of misery in my Doctor's patient room, dreading the end of each day waking in agony to begin again, every day, another day of unbelievable pain, disgusting scars and unending lonliness... I would remember.
A book, given to me in the hospitol, by Boss's daughter, Pauline Overly, about Mother Teresa. The quote, that shook me and sustained me from that first moment that I read it, even mired in that pit of despair I was drowning in.
"I know GOD wouldn't give me more than I can handle, sometimes I only wish HE didn't trust me so much."
Mother Teresa said that. The purest of hearts and souls, dedicated to helping the world and being a bright, bright light, our example amung us, said those words. Felt that way.
Somehow, knowing that she, Mother Teresa, with her boundless hope and faith, even could feel that way, gave me the strength to aim for tomorrow when the today I was living, hurt too much. To push through today, when that today was steeped in self-pity, confusion and pain.
She, after all she had done, experienced, lived through and felt. After she died and left us, touched my worthless, de-railed, drifting without direction, life. Gave me, that gossomer thread of hope to hold onto. After all, if Mother Teresa, of her 
complete and perfect faith and belief could feel that way, maybe I wasn't so completely alien and lost as I felt. Maybe I wasn't completely alone. Maybe I could just trust intomorrow, if only to get through today.
Now, You.
How do you make it through? When the going gets tough and it feels like there is nothing left, how do you get through it?
Whether you have a Higher Power to help you carry the troubles, fears, defeats and pains through the endless days of life or not, how do you come through?
I am, Alaska Chick.
“As you look, really look, and find no words; feeling both, your heart healing and filling to an inner bursting point and feeling that your soul has been laid open to the breeze and wind like a raw wound. This takes you beyond the physical, past the mental; this is the spiritual element. This is Chisana.”
My name is Amber-Lee Dibble and I am the Manager at Pioneer Outfitters. We are located in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve, our nation’s largest, most unexplored, unexploited and untouched National Park.
I am Mom, the Manager and the lead Guide of the Extreme Pro Team Guides. Born a Capricorn 1, Week of the Ruler, on the Day of The Indomitable One.
Pioneer Outfitters has been taking people into the wilderness of Alaska on horseback for Spiritual, Pleasure, Gold Panning, Glacier Exploring and Historic Trail Pack Trips, as well as Big Game Hunting and Survival & Guide Training since 1924. We, our family and our horses have always lived here year-round. As we make our life, we make our “living.”
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