Resurrection After the Storm

About three weeks ago I thought I had cut my grass for the last time this season. It was about to be fall, the grass wasn’t growing hardly at all, and the color had started to fade. All of my neighbors’ yards were doing the exact same thing, so I thought that was it. In my mind it was perfect timing because I had just put my last bit of gas in the lawnmower and was happy to not have to refill my gas tank again until next season.

Then came the storm – a torrential downpour. Not just any rain, but the kind of rain that accompanies a hurricane. After spending the next four days inside, by the time I ventured back outside again, I noticed something miraculous had happened. Everybody’s grass had come back to life! And not just come back to life, but just about every yard seemed to be greener than it ever was before. It’s not like we had been in a drought or that we hadn’t had any rain at all. But, there was something about the rain that came as a result of the storm that resurrected that which appeared to be dying.

So often, we attempt to avoid the storms of life. But have you ever stopped to think that the very storms we try to avoid are the very things that cause us to grow the most? On one hand we attempt to avoid things that will cause us to get better, and on the other hand we willingly embrace things that will cause us to get worse. We quickly accept when things are dying. We justify the things that are frail, fragile, and falling apart in our lives by comparing our situation to others. We at times actually get excited when we run out of fuel because we think it gives us permission to stop working. And we prematurely embrace a season before its time.

I’m sure all of us have experienced things in life that we would have preferred didn’t happen. We gained ten pounds. We locked our keys in the car. We missed a deadline. But in situations like these, we just adjust. We buy new clothes. We call AAA. We ask for an extension. But most times, when we experience going through a storm, we can’t just simply adjust – we are required to change. And whether we care to admit it or not, many of us don’t like change.

The day we’re living in today is different than the day we were living in just a few short months ago. Our world has experienced a storm through the pandemic. Many of our states have experienced storms through the weather. I’m sure just about all of our families have experienced some type of storm through an infinite number of scenarios. But rather than focusing on the devastation of the storm, let’s instead open our eyes to see the resurrection that can come after the storm.

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