Thoughts On Storms and Standing:

Times come in life when you really begin to wonder what the heck is going on. You don't always know what is going on, why it is going on, or how long things will last, good or bad. But as we look at life i think there are some ways to look at life that may be helpful.

First, we need to realize that there are times to advance and there are times to do your best to stand firm where you are. It would be nice if we could always advance but the fact is that storms do come and bad things do happen. Every day may not be a warm sunny day where everything goes perfect, i think everyone knows that by now. This is not to say that there has to be more bad days than good, in fact i would say that i have more good days than bad but there are bad days and hard seasons in life. And when those seasons do come i do my best to stand my ground, to hold on, and to last through the storm.

A picture popped into my head as i was thinking about this idea of standing your ground in hard times. I got a picture of a tornado blasting through a country side and a guy was holding on to a rope that was tied down to a stake in the ground. He was being tossed around and banged up a bit and i realized that if he tried to do anything else besides hang on it would not be helpful. If he tried to advance move somewhere else he would probably be sucked into the storm and hurt even more if he survived. I know this may sound intense but i thought about how stupid it is sometimes when in the middle of the storms in my life i try to move forward and do a bunch of different things to try and fight the storm instead of letting the storm pass naturally.

This blog isn't to get people down and say when a storm comes don't try because you can't win. It's not to say you should give up. I wanted to put these thoughts down for people to take the pressure off of having to solve the storms that come in your life. Trust that storms will pass, you will make it through, and in the end you will begin to advance once again. Storms come and go, but you will stay and advance.

Never give up because in the end you will win!