Cycles

A cycle is a periodically repeated sequence of events. We all experience them. We all want to avoid them. We have a tendency to think that if could just "do things" in a certain way we can avoid the "valleys" and troubles in life and this will bring us happiness. Life has cycles. We will have times when we are on the "mountain top" and times when we are in the "valley." What we need to begin to understand is that "no storm last forever." There are storms all the time, but none of them have lasted forever, most never last more than a few hours. The same is true in life. We need to realize that if we feel like we are in the mist of a storm, the sunshine will be here very soon. If we are on the mountain top, we are about to head down the mountain to a valley. If have experience sunshine, there will be a storm to come. I do not think that this means tragic things will always happen to us, but we will face things that have the opportunity to cause us anger, disappointment and sadness. We can minimize this with the realization that this is the course of life. Storms come and storms go. We are on the mountain and sometimes looking up at it. If we are in the valley, we will be on mountain top again soon.
Most of us look at being in a storm or a valley as we must have done something wrong, God must not be happy with us because if God were happy with us we would not be here experiencing this. What would happen if we could see this as the normal course of things. To not see these times as disconnection from God, but opportunities to be comforted and to comfort others when they are there.

All praise to the God and Father of our Master, Jesus the Messiah! Father of all mercy! God of all healing counsel! He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us. We have plenty of hard times that come from following the Messiah, but no more so than the good times of his healing comfort—we get a full measure of that, too. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5

This verses speaks to the fact that we get both good and bad times. We get full measures of storms and sunshine, mountains and valleys. Allow God to use those time, do not resist God's grace and indulgence to comfort you! Allow God to comfort you and do not think that God is only comforting when you are getting what you asked for. So today where ever you are, remember that God is right there. Allow God's comfort, grace and indulgence to fill you up. These things are there in the storms and in the sunny days!

Namaste'