The peace that comes after every storm

Last evening a storm came through. Blowing everything around. Tossing large objects like they were feathers. Blowing out transformers. Shutting down power for some. Sparing others. Just seconds before the air was flat calm. And then out of nowhere came the storm.

I went to bed fully expecting the storm to go through the night. Fully expecting to hear the sound of the howling wind. The pouring rain. Instead there was silence. Peace. The storm finished. The calm remained. I got up in the middle of the night and looked out the window because there was so much light coming through my blinds and there in the west was the moon as bright as could be. No clouds to obscure it. No wind to take away its light.  And beside the moon there were stars. Bright shiny stars set in a clear night sky. Picture perfect. No sign of the storm that had come through before. Just a calm and peaceful night

I stood at the window marveling at nature. Marveling at change. Marveling at how nature shows us all the time that sometimes we may not know our way. Sometimes we will be blown off course. Sometimes things around us will blow up leaving us feeling spent and depleted but if we are patient and trusting everything settles down in its time. And even when we feel like we are constantly in a storm. Constantly fighting to find the calm. If we let go, we will learn storms come and go and they pass when they are meant to pass therefore there is nothing we can do except go with the flow. Trust and have faith.

Sometimes we need storms so we can appreciate the calm. Sometimes we need storms to remove the debris cluttering our lives. Ridding us of all that is no longer necessary. Sometimes we need storms to make us remember the only constant in life is change. And that life changes constantly as do we when we accept that storms are just as necessary as calm.

So instead of resisting change, we need to learn to embrace it. Accept what comes our way and make the best of every situation that comes to us. Breathing deeply and going with the flow of the storm so that we can enjoy the calm. The peace that comes after every storm.