Learning How to Dance in the Rain

We spend so much of our lives waiting for things to get better, for ourselves to get motivated, for change to occur and THEN we’ll do whatever we’ve been putting off, life will be easier, we’ll be happier.

In the early years of my daughter’s long illness, ME/CFS, that is the way my thinking ran:

When she gets better/When they find a cure we’ll get our life back.

Ten years into this life of love and caring, we reflect that what we have been living IS our life – a life in which we have all changed, our love has grown, the caring has become easier and we are grateful, resilient people. She has taught me the truth of the saying:

LIFE ISN’T ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PASS

IT’S ABOUT LEARNING HOW TO DANCE IN THE RAIN

This is the lesson that the tough times we are currently living through can teach us.