I was watching the local news last night and there was a lot of talk about a coming winter storm. They talked about the coming ice and snow. They talked about how this would make conditions on the roads dangerous. We were told to prepare if preparing was our kind of thing to do. The storm was supposed to hit us overnight. I woke up and the storm did not in fact hit. I am grateful there was no large winter storm last night.
I am mostly grateful that the storms we are warned about rarely actually hit. I am starting to realize and believe that much of the impending doom, storms or otherwise, is rarely impending. I am grateful to have realized that. Some people go around thinking the coming storm is always going to come. That is a lot of weight to carry with a person I think. Carrying the weight of everything that might happen is a great weight to carry.
Sometimes the storm does hit. Until it hits I find little need to carry the weight of the storm with me. I have storm supplies ready, but I don’t worry or give this impending doom much thought. I am good at this with storms. I should be better with this with all the other impending dooms that I allow to add weight to my life. Things happen and then we react, there is little reason to worry about things that might happen. We would all be dead 10 times over if all the impending dooms out there actually hit us. Impending doom is everywhere but really it rarely hits us, or hits us hard. Anyways I am grateful it didn’t storm last night and ruin any of my plans.