Storms Are Inevitable
You hear the gentle rumble.
You see the wind begins to blow a bit harder.
Then the rains begin.
The sun hides behind the darkening clouds.
The wind sends the branches flailing and whipping about.
The thunder booms
The lightning slashes the sky like a crooked rapier, piercing the darkness without effort.
Soon the winds are howling like ravenous wolves
Tearing at whatever they can find
Shredding all in their path.
Isn’t this how we feel when our own storms come tromping into our lives? Have you ever asked “Why?”? Have you ever felt more like you were a leaf in a storm….helpless and floundering at the whim of the winds?
Here’s the thing about storms, and I speak from a lifetime of experience with doing things wrong. Storms come. That’s inevitable and may not sound like fun, because they’re not fun, but they come anyway like it or not. Storms don’t care if you’re ready for them or not, they’re coming anyway. But here’s the good thing about storms…..they always pass. Might take some time, and, true, there might be some damage, but they WILL pass.
Sometimes we feel like it’s easier just to be at the mercy of the winds and let them whip us about as they will. But hang on and you’ll find out a lot about yourself. By hanging on, you will be pulled and stretched and maybe even battered a bit, but you’ll come out stronger!
I don’t know how true it is, but it’s still a good story.
The story goes that Admiral Horatio Nelson, in preparing to engage Napoleon’s fleet, ordered that all of his ships of the line were to be built exclusively with the trees from the EDGE of the forests. This was because they had survived the storms and were much stronger than the trees in the middle of the forest.
It’s not easy being a Rider on the Storm. But nothing worthwhile IS easy.
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