{"id":3721,"date":"2013-08-22T23:14:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T05:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2013-08-22T23:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T05:14:22","slug":"just-because-its-stormy-now-doesnt-mean-you-arent-headed-for-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/just-because-its-stormy-now-doesnt-mean-you-arent-headed-for-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because its stormy now doesn\u2019t mean you aren\u2019t headed for sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am sitting in a chair wrapped up in a blanket and watching an amazing rainstorm through my window.\u00a0 Lightning is shooting through the sky every few seconds followed by the constant cracking of thunder. \u00a0I have to say that there is something really magical about watching a storm like this.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s the beauty of the lightning as it shoots out across a blackened sky, or perhaps it\u2019s the contrast of the gently falling raindrops against the loud roaring of the thunder.\u00a0 Either way, it is definitely magical.<\/p>\n

Our lives are full of good days and bad ones, happy days and sad ones, easy days and hard ones.\u00a0 As we go along our journey I think one of the most important things to remember is that no bad day lasts forever, and every sad day eventually comes to an end.\u00a0 We will have sunny days without a cloud in our sky and we will have days where the thunder rolls around us with a deafening noise.\u00a0 But no matter how harsh the rain storms that come are, there will come a point like is happening right now out my window \u2013 a point where the lightning stops and the thunder quiets and all the plinkety plink of the raindrops are slowly coming to a halt.\u00a0 And when it is done it will always be followed by the welcome light of the sunshine as it rises in the sky and brightens everything in this world.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t confuse your path with your destination.\u00a0 Just because it\u2019s stormy now doesn\u2019t mean that you aren\u2019t headed for sunshine.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So many people in the world get caught in the trap of forgetting that the storms they are facing right now are merely a section of the road they are traveling through and they lose sight of the fact that in no way is their current circumstance their final destination.\u00a0 If they just keep moving forward, putting one foot in front of the other, they will eventually come to the next section of road that is surrounded by gorgeous flowers that were only able to grow because of a previous storm that had passed by them.\u00a0 The sun will return and things will get brighter again\u2026.Not forever, but at least for a while before its time for the storm clouds to once again roll in and the lightning to spark across the sky, but that\u2019s okay\u2026because that is all part of the journey we go through in life\u2026Perhaps going forward you might try skipping merrily through the stormy sections as it will help you pass through them more quickly, and when you hit the sunny spots try taking time to stop and look around to appreciate the beautiful flowers you are surrounded by and appreciating how wonderful the sunshine truly feels\u2026.recognize that without that last storm the flowers wouldn\u2019t have bloomed and the rainbow wouldn\u2019t display its incredibly colors in that amazing arch across the sky\u2026then continue walking forward, better prepared and less afraid to dance through the next rainstorm ahead right into another bought of sunshine\u2026.<\/p>\n

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Have a beautiful weekend everyone!<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am sitting in a chair wrapped up in a blanket and watching an amazing rainstorm through my window.\u00a0 Lightning is shooting through the sky every few seconds followed by the constant cracking of thunder. \u00a0I have to say that there is something really magical about watching a storm like this.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s the beauty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1978,500,46,1974,251,60,410,63,280,163,1979,57,1105,1976,665,7,30,29,1973,244,65,55,180,1975,1977,464,1969,1972,53,1380,1520,1971,1668,1967,708,1968,149,608,1970,344,281],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adversityt","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-bad-days","tag-balance","tag-beautiful","tag-blessing","tag-blessings","tag-challenges","tag-courage","tag-destination","tag-easy","tag-flowers","tag-forever","tag-forward","tag-future","tag-gift","tag-god","tag-good-days","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-hard","tag-harsh","tag-joy","tag-lightning","tag-magical","tag-motivation","tag-path","tag-rain","tag-raindrops","tag-sad","tag-storm","tag-storms","tag-stormy","tag-success","tag-sunshine","tag-thunder","tag-trial","tag-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}