WEATHERING THE STORMS OF LIFE

Isn't that remarkable? While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above. It does not escape the storm. It simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It rises on the winds that bring the storm. What an extraordinary way to deal with adversity!

Life feels more like a storm ,we are either in a storm, coming out of a storm or one is always approaching us. Life is not easy , I don't care who you are, whether poor or rich, sick or healthy, life is constantly a test on who you really are and who you will be. This is why I believe that there is more to this life than just living it and trying to get by and then we die. If this life is all there is then why fuss with it, just live a hedonistic life , get what you want, and die with the most goodies because that is all you will get out of it. But I believe there is more to it than that.
What is the purpose to life anyway? It seems to me that no matter who you are, where you live or what you believe you are being tested. That is how it feels to me. It seems all of us are either in a storm, just got out or moving into a storm and it seems to be a constant cycle. The only reasoning for it all it seems to me is to produce within us a stronger person one with depth to us, character, growth, a learning process that has a purpose in it. For what? It depends on one's religious beliefs as to what the purpose may be, but most religions believe that this life is mainly a kind of earth school and when we die and are reborn into the spiritual realm/dimension that this  process that we find ourselves in now,will in hindsight not be as traumatic as we believe it to be on this side of the gateway or rainbow bridge ,that we all will eventually must pass through or over.
But now the storm rages, it is scary, the winds of fate are blowing us this way and that and lightning strikes of pain, sickness, disease,depression,loss jobs or relationships or the death of love ones, strike unmercifully. Sometimes it is a mild storm and other times it feels like a tornado or blizzard. I believe that those who get through these storms the best are those who know that there is a purpose for it all and that if we can keep our minds in a positive light that we will get through it,maybe a bit tossed and disheveled and some times worse for wear but we got through it and if we can believe that we will one day see these storms from a higher perspective,if we can be like the eagle that flies above the storm clouds that we are under, and uses the storm itself to rise above it all,we will be more equipped to weather the storms of life. If we keep the perspective that there is a purpose in these storms ,that my friend, will make all the difference in how we deal with them or they deal with us.  Lets keep an eagle's perspective through it all and may the Gods be with you.
eagle blessings to ya
Owlthena