Find Opportunities Despite The Storms

It is Memorial Day Weekend and the thunder is rolling in the distance. I was planning on taking the kids to the pool after church and just relaxing. The first crack of lightning reduced the chances that we will be floating on a raft by an order of magnitude. Thunderstorms are popping up all over our county and it is just a little after 12:00.

My youngest son began prattling on about how God didn’t want us to have a good day, because he made it rain. What an interesting perspective for a seven year old. His assumption was that things were not turning out as he had planned and he was not supposed to have a good day. I told him that God didn’t make it rain to ruin his day.

How many times do we buy into this kind of thinking? Things in your business are not going as well as you planned this week and so you are questioning if you are in the right business. You did not accomplish a goal you set, so you start questioning if it was valid.

Something happens to change our plans, and we are faced with one of two decisions. You can soak in the disappointment assuming you have missed a great opportunity or…

You can do what my son just did. He put on his swimming trunks, blew up his inner tube and yelled down the stairs to let me know the sun was back out and we all could go swimming now.

He quickly recovered from the disappointment of the moment and cranked up his optimistic engine. He sees a new opportunity quickly. I see the sun, but I still hear the thunder in the distance…