After the Storm

I am in Windsor this morning. There was a roaring thunderstorm last night and the wind was wild. Yet, there is no sign of it this morning. The sunrise was peaceful, the birds were plentiful and the sky had a clarity about it that can only come after it has been ravaged by a storm. The colours of the sunrise were more pronounced. Or maybe I was just more grateful for such a sunrise after the intensity of the storm.

It's the same in life. Usually the day after a "storm" in your life is a day filled with simple graces. This can be attributed to the fact that the immense store of energy associated with the storm is now spent and therefore there is space for energy to flow freely again unbound by any constraint or blockage. I wonder if the storms happen simply as a result of blocking energy. The build up requires expression and this often results in a storm. The important thing to notice is that it's just energy being expressed. Sometimes this is easy to do and sometimes it is hard. But energy must keep moving. Perhaps we would be well served to learn to continuously move this energy so that we wouldn't be required to occasionally vent the energy in a "storm".