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“Tomorrow’s another day. And I’m thirsty anyway. So bring on the rain.” “Bring On the Rain”  as sung by Jo Dee Messina

As Jo Dee says, “A single battle lost but not the war, cause’ tomorrow’s another day, and I’m thirsty anyway, so bring on the rain.”  That song came on the other day as I was driving home, coming to a place where I realized that feeling lost is also a place.  In that place there is something to learn.  And when you learn it you are given the secret to not only learn to withstand but embrace the rain that life brings.  To know that tomorrow is another day and I was made, with resilience, and perseverance, to deal with the storms and learn the lessons in the torrent.

So, bring on the rain.  Timely, it seems, as the tropics are headed into what is estimated to be one of the worst hurricane seasons in a while and sitting on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean I am going to have to learn to weather the literal storms as well as the metaphoric.  And the cosmos seem primed to pummel me with a little of both.

What are we meant to learn from the rain and storms of life?  Almost everything.  We can enjoy calm seas, clear skies, and find gratitude in sunlight but we learn our greatest lessons about ourselves, our own capacity to be resilient and change, and our strengths/weaknesses and “stuck points” in the storms.  The storms of life tell us everything about who we are and where we are in our lives.

Faith and having a spiritually centered core is our own belief that we will persevere and our ability to be open to learn what we need to from the storms–even, and especially, when it is what we least want to learn.

My largest growing pains through my current uncertainty has been learning my own lessons despite my resistance to what I have learned.  Despite not wanting to hear, and in some ways not wanting to grow, the way I need to grow.  To know that “not now” doesn’t mean “not ever” and learning that I don’t have to live life at a sprint to get where I am going.  To learn that as much as I remind others to breathe in life I need to balance that with equal time for my own room to breathe.

What have you been avoiding in your own life {if anything}?  What storms have you had?  What did you learn from the rain?  Can you find a way to embrace the rain rather than flee from the stormy weather?  Consider dancing in the rain and finding yourself pulling yourself into the moment during life’s growing pains?  There is so much we can learn from the storms and we learn it faster when we embrace rather than struggle amid the drops falling down on our head.  It often seems that when we struggle to get out of the storm before it’s over we miss the lesson we need to learn and it just comes back two times stronger and more ferocious.  God, the cosmos, or whatever you call the nature of existence, seems bent on us learning and growing; it becomes more insistent the more we ignore.  The storms become more ferocious the more we run.

I think I shall take a breath.  I think I will stand in the rain.  I think I will stop living life at a sprint and see what happens when I stand still and embrace the warm drops of a summer storm.

Et tu?