Surprise rain...

Weather people, gotta love 'em. Some of the few people who can be wrong most of the time and still keep their jobs... wow... can't really say that anymore when I think of the media, Congress, and the current administration... not going there, today.

Back to the rain... same thing, but not... at least the rain is beneficial... oh, dear... it seems I'm more than a little snarky, today. Should make the day interesting. Hopefully more productive than the past week.

Anyway, the other day I was working and thinking it was awfully dark considering it was still afternoon. I glanced outside, and the wind is blowing everything around. Thank God for the internet. I'd been chatting with a friend, two hours away, on FaceBook. She mentioned the storm there, and I replied we weren't scheduled to have anything but a few clouds. She'd lost power for a while, but was back. I checked Accuweather. It was clear, and then a huge storm popped. This happens a lot around here. Lightning and thunder, with blowing wind, and pouring rain, and the guy on the weather channel on television is saying that there might be some storms in the eastern part of the state but our part of the state won't see anything. Sure. Sure.

Then it was over.

Blessedly, we didn't lose power, but a lot of other people did. There were downed trees, and several home fires due to lightning. A few homes had wind damage. No one was hurt.

Kind of like life. We're going along, and everything's sunny. Then it grows dark, without warning, and there's turbulence and seeming disaster. Then it's over, and the business of life continues. You do what you're able to pull yourself together, sometimes stronger, sometimes not, except you're in a different place than you were. There's no going back. Nothing will ever be exactly the same.

The question: What will you do with what has happened to you?

Is the storm but a blip on your radar?

Or do you choose to embrace it, and allow it to change you forever?