Calm before the storm...

I love spring. It is my favorite season of the whole entire year. Everything comes to life again. The days get longer. The air is warmer. It's like the earth is giving birth to a new start for everyone and everything. I love it. This spring is no exception with all that has been going on in my life. Not being well the last week has kind of put a damper on things. (must be something in the Swiss air) However, I refuse to let that get me down.

I'm pretty familiar with the fact that normally when things seem to be falling into place and finally life is taking shape just like we want it to, we get challenges. The challenges could be health, money, friends, family, etc. Whatever it is, it stresses out, makes us sick, ruins our sleep, give us heartburn (you laugh at me, but wait until you have it and can't eat anything but plain yogurt while that delicious quiche you just made sits on the counter. It's downright cruel!)

But I think, what happens sometimes is that we start to focus on these challenges. We lose sight of the big picture, the one that only days ago was painted so vividly in our minds like fresh oil on canvas. We could even almost touch the reality of it. How does that happen so fast??? I wonder myself sometimes. I'm not exceptionally great at not panicking. I'm getting better, and I learned that these challenges come from those entities that don't want us to succeed. Don't want us to fulfill our dreams. They come in many forms, but (and maybe this is a self pep talk as well) we can't lose sight of what we see through those rose colored glasses we just found.

We've got to make a conscious effort to polish them up, keep them from getting too scratched. I'm going to win and I'm going to win big at this game we call life. I've just got to remember that I'm fighting for it all the time. I think right now I'm just at the end of the calm before the storm. But I refuse to panic. I'm never alone in this. I've always got Him walking right beside me regardless anyway, and I'm a stubborn woman who gets what she wants.  :)

So remember to power through the storm, wearing those rose colored glasses. Who cares if they get a little spotty from the water. They clean. The important thing to hold on to is to never lose sight of the world and the life that you see through them.