I don’t know what the weather has been like where you live, but in the South, we’ve had nothing but rain lately. Last year it was the drought, this year it is an abundance of rain. But…today it is beautiful. The sun is shining so brightly (I swear I had forgotten what that looked like) and the temperature was an amazing 52 degrees this morning. It actually feels a bit like fall.
Life can be like that. You feel like ALL you are getting is rain…nothing but dreary days, uncooperative people, any number of things that get us down. It is so important to keep in mind that it won’t last. Remember what it tells us in Ecclesiastes 3:4, in every life there is “a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.”
The hard part is being able to focus on that promise that there will be a time to laugh and a time to dance. And if we don’t look for the opportunity to dance and laugh…even in the middle of the hard times…we might miss it. It isn’t always clearly delineated into “this is the tough time” and “this is the good time.” Sometimes they are intertwined.
That means we have to be ready to laugh in the middle of a tough time. And the beauty of it is…a laugh can lessen a hard situation. It’s hard to be down when you are smiling!
