Weather and Change

“From the mouths of babes” must have first been spoken by a mother. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have become a student to one or the other of my daughters. The other day the oldest of the two, now twenty, shared something she had writen a while back. God uses the insight of youth as well as the wisdom of age to teach His children.
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Weather: rain, snow, sun, cold, hot, blizzards, tornadoes and hurricanes. The weather is constantly changing and taking on knew faces and forms.

Sometimes I fill like my life is like the weather. Things are always happing and changing. The normal flow is always interrupted. Sometimes it is catastrophic just like a level 10 hurricane. Other times it is a simple disturbance like a short thunderstorm on a warm spring day, or sometimes it is even a short shower on a cool summer night. Many things affect life, and what is the norm often changes.

Even though it is hard when things don't go the way planned, I don't want to loose the disturbances in my life. I want the wind to blow, I need it to blow hard, long and strong. Every time it blows, God’s love is ever being shown. If the bad never happened, would my faith or anyones faith for that matter really truly be as strong?

Always, continually thank God for the good, but remember Him and still take time to praise Him even during the bad. (Barbara Dickhoner)