Cliche

There has been a pretty big storm moving through Taiwan the last couple of days. In fact, they even cancelled school on Friday just to be on the safe side with the kids. Thursday night the storm was really bad and the winds reached 96 mph at some points. Some of our doors and windows are not really air tight and the whistling from the wind was so loud. There was a door in our apartment complex that wasn't locked and it kept banging through the night. The next morning was pretty calm with just a drizzle and we went to the roof to get some fresh air from our stuffy apartment. Usually there is a pretty heavy layer of smog in the air that blocks our view of the surrounding area, but the wind and rain had cleared the air a little bit. We could actually see mountains!! The luscious green mountains that were so close but we just couldn't see them before. It was a beautiful site.

I couldn't help but make the obvious metaphor in my mind. Sometimes in life we get trapped under the layer of smog and negativity that keeps us from seeing the beauty around us. We just have to wait for the storm and trials to clear our mind so that we can see clearly the blessings that are always around us.