When a storm comes into our life, it is unpredictable and unexpected. Our natural reaction is to fight it. But a storm demands something from us. It demands that we make changes, learn, grow and make progress that we wouldn’t ordinarily do. We no longer have the luxury of staying on our original, known course.
Sometimes we need a disruption in our pattern. As creatures of habit, we tend to stay in our same patterns and routines. Even if they no longer serve us, we are apt to continue doing them because they are known to us. They are safe.
For me, when a storm would come into my life, I would fight it. I didn’t like what was happening and I wanted it to stop. I wanted things to go back to how they had been. But as I started to look back at pivotal points in my life, I realized that my greatest growth happened after the storm. It forced me out of my comfort zone and insisted that I make change. It required me to level up. And I did.
But I will tell you, some of these storms felt catastrophic to me. And they were. I remember waking up some mornings and my first thought being that my current storm was really just a nightmare – it wasn’t real. It couldn’t be. (Talk about denial!) But it was very real. And necessary for my journey.
So, what if we start looking at storms as having a purpose? What if they might even be our ally? What if they are here to create an environment for us to make the necessary changes and decisions we need to make?
Instead of asking about why this is happening to us, maybe we need to ask a better question. Maybe what we should really be asking is, what can I learn from this? What is the Universe trying to tell me?
Look back at your greatest times of growth. What events led up to it? What storms came to clear your path?
