Summer storms are interesting things... you can have a perfectly sunny, beautiful, warm summer day one minute and the next thing you know the clouds roll in, the sky is an odd shade of green and the tornado siren is going off, warning you to get to shelter. It has been an odd week of weather around here... I haven't deliberately spent this much time in my basement in quite some time. Good news is that we have weathered the storms just fine.
The crazy weather has me thinking about how we weather the storms in our personal lives... No one is immune to "bad weather". We all have things we have to deal with at one time or another that are less than pleasant. As for me, my entire week has pretty much mimicked the weather. The details are not important, but it all has me wishing for clearer skies and simpler times. The real question is this... if it was sunny and clear all the time, would that really be better?
I think sometimes when it just seems like there are too many things happening, and so much feels as out of our control as the weather, we start to wish that everything could just be simple or easy. But I wonder, if everything came easy, and we never had any challenges to face, how would we learn to appreciate the best parts of every day? Would we know how lucky we were? Would we put the same value on all of the good things in our lives? Without a point of comparison, would we just take all of the best things for granted?
Simple times... I know that I have fallen victim to wishing for things to be easier time and again. But I have also learned over time that while I may wish for that in the short term, nothing that is worth having ever came easy and some of the more challenging things I have faced have taught me the best lessons. I think simple sounds like it might be a nice place to visit for a few days, but after a time it just becomes boring...and too easy really. I am reminding myself of all of this because I know that this storm, too, will pass...and the weather on the other side is going to be beautiful!
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