Another Storm

The worst of times come in waves.  One bad thing you can deal with; it's when the bad things just keep coming that you get overwhelmed.  I've been going through a season like this.  It all began on a snowy day in March and has continued to bombard me with fresh and varying sized slices of hell on a weekly basis ever since.  I could get depressed, sit in my bathrobe all day and cry--I've done a little of that.  I could get angry, scream and rage against whomever will listen--I've done a little of that too.  But, those things often don't change the situation at all and if they do it's rarely for the better.

When, not if, when these difficult times tear through our lives, the best course of action is accept them and deal with each thing one at a time until the storm clears.  I won't say you should wait it out until life returns to "normal" because life is ever changing and normal is a fluid and relative term.  The fact is when hard things happen they draw a firm line through our lives and things may never return to the way they were, but you can still have a good life and you can have peace through all the storms life throws at you.

I say this as much to myself as to anyone else.  You've heard the old superstition that bad things happen in threes?  Well, at this moment I'm looking at three in the rearview as things continue to happen.  It all rings too familiar to that upcoming anniversary of six years ago when my life really did change horrifically.  And yet, even knowing that now things may always be worse than they were before, here I am.  Still going forward.  

I am, as the fella once said, Hard pressed but not crushed, knocked down but not out.  So, this time just as in the past, I'm going to get up and keep going, hold onto my peace and my joy because those things aren't dependent on my circumstances or my situation.  And one moment at a time, I'll weather this storm like the others, as best I can.