Stormy Weather

Have you heard the story about the young lady in the storm?
She is driving with her father and a storm comes. She gets scared and sees people pulling over. Wanting to pull over she reaches for her blinker and her father tells her to keep driving. It starts raining harder and she is having a hard time seeing at a distance, large trucks are pulling over, and she feels the need to pull over again. Her father steps in and tells her to keep driving. As she keeps driving she sees a break in the clouds. She continues and eventually a sunny sky is revealed. Her father then tells her to pull over and look back. As she looks back she sees all the cars and trucks struggling and some pulled to the shoulder. This is likened to our lives and how we go through things but as we keep pressing there will be a break. Just keep swimming.

So anywho... this weekend when I was driving back from New Orleans a storm hit almost as soon as we hit the Mississippi state line. We saw the clouds coming, but we could go nowhere but forward. We had to get home. It got really bad. The one thing that's worse that driving in a storm is driving in a storm on a road that is new to you. You don't know which exits you can take to shelter yourself, you really have no idea what is going on besides what's in front of you. In some cases the best thing you can do is look at the taillights in front of you and follow. The visibility may not even allow you to see the road, the curves or what not. Hope that the car in front of you is going the same place as you are going. Otherwise you're bound to end up where they're going and not going where you need to be. Made me think...

Think about the people around you right now. As far as your close friends... do you feel you're going in the same direction enough to where if you lost your sight... if you had no direction... they'd get you on the right path. There are some of us who have friends on a different path, they may even do the ol' out the window wave to let you know that even though they are taking this exit... you need to keep pressing on. Those friends are golden. Sometimes even moreso than the ones that are on the same road trip.

Just a thought...