Ewwwww

I looked out the window and my thought was while that’s pretty but ew. It was snow falling and in Minnesota in November, snow falling is not unexpected, in fact it is expected. Snow is pretty, but like the song says “ if you no place to go, let it snow.” And again let’s be clear it was the big beautiful snow flakes that make you feel like you are in a snow globe. I always think, good trick, make me forget how much I dislike snow by making it pretty.

Snow is pretty, even beautiful, if, you do not have to drive in it, shovel it or comes with a layer of ice. But snow, like life, is not going to wait for the day that you have no errands to run, no place to be,it just comes at you. Sometimes it is like big fluffy flakes, sometimes it’s a a full out blizzard.

I have been in both parts of life I have had the beauty and I have had the blizzard. You know the kind in which you can’t see the lines in the road , let alone are positive you are driving in the wrong lane. You are positive that this was the plowed lane and that the other lane’s are worse, especially when that person flies by you at what you are thinking is an absolute crazy speed. And you think to yourself, wow, that person is really crazy.

This is a lot like life, we are heading down the road with the big beautiful flakes of snow falling and boom, al of sudden it’s a blizzard. Maybe it’s life changing, such as a diagnosis or maybe you said good bye to someone you loved too soon. Those are the things that make you think wasn’t I driving in the paved lane? Wasn’t I following the plow? Nope, you are not following the plow, you are forgoing your own path.

Sometimes, your shovel is small, and well it’s not moving much snow around. But soon, you realize that maybe, I need a bigger shovel or maybe I need someone to help. So, you figure out what you need, and you start digging out and you are thinking I got this and boom, snow plow goes by, your diagnosis changes again, you learn that the path you are on wasn’t the right one, so you pivot again and start shoveling again.

My point is as much as we want life to beautiful and have the big beautiful things in it, we have blizzard’s that we have to go through, sometimes and maybe more days than not that the snow keeps falling at an reasonable rate and we want to stop. We can’t, we have to keep pushing through. Keep shoveling.

It’s hard friends, when life keeps throwing you into the blizzard, it’s so very hard, but find, those people that can help you through it, and remember that maybe the person that helped you through before can help again and maybe there is another way through.

We can do it, but sometimes we have to shovel a little longer, to enjoy the beauty that is there, and there is beauty to be found.

Until next time,

Juli