WEATHER WARNINGS

It always helps to understand signs of changing weather. When you can feel and know that something different is coming.

So you know you have to prepare. To be sure you are ready to accept and embrace whatever storm might appear.

But what if the impending weather includes a rainbow? Suppose instead of a storm it will bring a harvest?

I think sometimes we forget this fact. That weather does have an upside in spiritual terms. And it can be important to anticipate and trust for the good as much as have faith to battle the bad.

It just doesn't quite get our attention the same. Blessings we look at as some kind of gift. A reward you don't have to work for.

But some times we are challenged to reach out just as much for an umbrellas as a place to avoid the rain. To be sure we don't let the ill of past storms ruin our eyes to gaze upon the light.

It is the challenge we don't always accept. The call we sometimes don't hear. Then to see into the light as much hope as we see despair in the darkness.

However, this can be easy to miss. We can so easily get trapped in only thinking bad will come.

And so many times it is a problem. Just not always the quite the point of view we care to embrace.

It is sad I suppose that we often expect the worst. Or try some form of pseudo positivism to convince ourselves that bad things never happen.

This is not a path that really copes with the truth. It leads in ways contrary to facing the real weather signs.

But if we will let God's spirit help to inspired and lead, then we can see both the blizzards and the rainbows. And learn to keep them focused as intended.

It isn't easy naturally. Because we must reach out beyond ourselves. And truly gaze into the source of all weather.

Then we focused eyes appreciate when a storm can be a blessing, even when we get wet. Providing we will do more than talk about bad weather.

That can be one hurdle we may never leap.