During winter and early spring, we are often confronted by grey skies. Rain, snow, or blustery conditions may bombard us with relentless and seemingly endless ferocity. But if we were to fly in an airplane, we would cut through the clouds and find that beyond the storm is blue sky.
The weather is a condition stirred by something in the atmosphere. Above the clouds and threatening conditions is clear blue sky, untouched by the storms at lower atmospheric levels. Beyond the night storms resides a blanket of twinkling lights as the planets and stars exist and persist regardless of conditions in our own earth’s atmosphere.
So it is with us. Depending on our emotions, physical well-being and mental outlook, we experience a lot of “weather”, but the truth beyond is clarity residing in an untroubled mind.
Just like weather, the doubts, fears, and distortions that besiege us are usually momentary, and generally caused by “atmospheric” conditions within our own lives. We may experience periods of “winter”, but as in nature, spring must come again. As we are able to distil experience and sort through what is transitory, we can come back to the blue skies of ourselves. And as in the moments of storm, good may come as a result…just as in the natural world. After all, without the rain, there would be no growth, and nothing to bloom.