Storms

God taught me some things as I was driving through the WORST thunderstorm the other night.

1. When in the middle of a storm, you have to focus less on the end result, and more on what is right in front of you. You have to take things one step, or one white dash mark, at a time. When you take your eyes off of the very next dash mark things become blurry and scarier.

2.To successfully and safely make it through the storm you need to eliminate the unnecessary distractions (loud music, cell phones, etc) and focus on what is really important. During the storms of life we can easily be distracted by so many things and fail to focus on God.

3. During storms we can't forget that other people are struggling too, and some may be even struggling more than we are (ie the people wrecked in the middle of the road)

4. Making it through the storm and being back to safety is a wonderfully comforting feeling. There IS a promise of the end to the storm. For me it was arriving at my house after a two hour drive down 40. But eternally it is going to heaven. There will be a day when there will be no more storms and we will be with Jesus. Life there will be without storms as we are in perfect union with God. If that doesn't make you long for heaven then I don't know what does :)