Dance in the Rain

**As LeeAnn Rimes sang, "I hope you'll never fear those mountains in the distance Never settle for the path of least resistance Living might mean taking chances but they're worth taking....when you get the choice to sit it out or dance. I hope you dance."

**Because it is raining our dance need not stop, but rather we should dance harder.

**After the rain stops, we can dance in the puddles it left and enjoy the rainbow and sunshine.

**When you see a storm approaching, prepare for the storm, but always remember--eventually the storm will pass and the sun will come out again. Yes, the sun sometimes makes us see the damage the storm caused more clearly, but it also helps us to gain perspective and to plan our next step.

**Tornadoes sometimes tear through our lives--perhaps in the form of illness, death, or divorce, requiring us to assess the damage and to begin re-building. Some tornadoes do minimal damage and getting our life back together is inconvenient, but relatively easy. Other tornadoes leave us with shards and the clean-up and re-building is a "start from scratch" adventure. Yes, it is tempting to give up and quit, but what then? Quiting doesn't make it better, neither does it make the situation go away. The longer we wait to face our situation the harder it will be to fix and most likely things will have gotten worse.

**No one is exempt from the storms of life and rain is needed to make the flowers and food grow. It is how one faces and deals with the storms of life that matters.

**I plan to dance.