Ah, the joy and agony of what spring has to bring for us. I do not know about you, but where I am for the first time in a month the sun is shining. It arose in an array of beautiful colors, the sky then became crystal clear blue and for once I did not need to wrap a blanket around me to get to my robe. Just looking out the window and seeing this sky gives my heart a ray of hope brighter days are coming.
It has been a long, hard winter for most of us Americans and warm, bright, sunny days are just what the doctor ordered. It brings out the hidden smiles we have been storing up all winter, makes us feel happy, and in general just changes our outlook on the day. Spring does have its challenges though and best we not forget; “in like a lamb, out like a lion.” Mother Nature tends to remind us in every season who really is the boss.
"Adversity" as defined in the Oxford dictionary: misfortune, woe, affliction, negative, trouble, hard times and tribulation. I enter this definition as a starting point to what is true and what is not. So many times in our lives we are challenged with adversity, the negative, the hard times and way to often, the tribulations. But one has still to remember that for every negative there lays a positive.
When we look at the mere definition of just one word and not place that word into any context, can we truly understand the meaning? It is like looking in a mirror from the far left or right, you tend to see what is being reflected from a skewed vantage point, not what is being reflected from the other angles. This what I mean when I say context. Now replace the word adversity with any situation in your life that fits the definition and image you are seeing the situation from the ceiling not from where you enter the room. Things tend to look a little different when you remove yourself from the normal angle and replace it with an entirely new vantage point.
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