Preparing for Rainy Days

Rainy days, winter, darkness, all can remind us that there are seasons for everything. We cannot live as if the day will always be sunny and warm. At the same time, where those challenging weather and seasons come, we cannot lose hope as if they will not pass.

I just woke up after a long nap. And again I am amazed how things can change. I was so stressed this afternoon and now I feel fine, as if those things were just a dream. It is weird because I still remembered on how I thought things would stay gloomy for the rest of the day.

So I am writing this to remind me that there is always hope. At the same time, I also want to remember to prepare for rainy days. One of my tendency is to go full force when I feel enthusiastic, to tap for every opportunity, every ideas that come. In other word, I don’t prepare for buffer, I don’t prepare tools like umbrella for rainy days or to save food for winter, or to remember that the number of daylight is shorter and so we cannot assume that we still have the same number of hours every time.

This means to hold myself when I am fresh like now, to have realistic expectations that things will not always be like this. Read good books while I can, get things done what I can, prepare for the tools that will allow me to be patient. As a book said, we can only train for patience when things get frustrated. We need to seek God’s grace to be able to see opportunity for character growth in every challenges.

So let’s get up and do what we can. Remember that there will be an end of period like this, but it will also come again.