I was about to sign off my computer one night after a session of browsing and reading when I heard the weather man say that severe weather was headed my way. According to him, I should brace myself for thunderstorms with hail and wind and possible tornados. It wasn’t long before I heard the first distant sounds of thunder, a long, rolling, rumbling type of thunder. Then soon after that, the wind picked up followed by hard, pounding rain with bright flashes of lightening and the loud noise of strong thunder claps.

I looked out the window up into the black sky, trying to determine if the rest of the threat, the hail and (hopefully not) the tornado, was up there in the darkness somewhere. It was so dark, I couldn’t see a thing. If something awful were to come out of that black cloud, I wouldn’t see it coming; it could hit me from any direction and leave nothing behind but destruction.

Then I thought, this storm is just like the storms of life. They seem to come out of nowhere, striking when we least expect. They catch us with our guard down and seem to come from our blind side. These storms of life pour out from dark clouds often in the middle of the night so we can‘t see what is coming at us. These storms also disrupt our peace like very loud thunder and bright lightening, and they hurt us like the pounding of large balls of hail. Life’s storms threaten to knock us right off our feet like the forceful winds of tornados.

But like a regular storm, the storms of life usually will not last, they will soon pass over. The pain of a lost loved one or a lost love will get a little lighter, financial slumps will start to turn uphill, sicknesses begin to be healed, broken family ties are reconnected, destructive habits are left behind.

So when the storms of life hit you, when they show up suddenly out of the clear blue sky or sneak in under the cover of the night sky, and when they threaten to blow you away, remember this storm in your life will pass like countless others before it. Hunker down and hold on. Focus on the break in the clouds. When the storm passes over, brighter skies will follow.

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