When I woke up this morning it was the most miserable day ever. The wind was howling, rain was pouring down and the sky was dark. “What a miserable day,” I thought, “I won’t be walking to the grocery store today.” Normally, I walk to the store and I have a few things to pick up for dinner tonight. A few minutes ago, I noticed the sun shining on me as I sat at my desk.  When I looked out the window the sun was shining and the sky was perfectly clean and blue. It looks like I will be walking to the store after all.

That got me thinking about the way life works out. It’s been nearly a year and a half since we moved to the UK. Honestly, our first months in the country were some of the most trying times in my life. We couldn’t find a place to live, our money was quickly running out and our whole family was stressed. Those were hard times. When they were happening I didn’t know how we would get through them.

All this time has passed and now we have a place to live. My husband has started to find more and more work that is better quality than the work he did in Florida, my websites are starting to take off, and my stepson is enjoying school. Even he says that the difficult times we experienced when we first moved here really helped him to mature and appreciate the things more.

When we were going through all of that my stepson was very hard to deal with. He was complaining all the time and struggling to cope. I bet that in a million years he’d never have thought that one day he’s be glad that he experienced it. That’s the  thing about trials. They’re hard–that’s obvious–but when you come out the other side you come out a better person.

Things have a way of working out. Even when you feel like all the terribleness around you will just swallow you up, don’t let it. Don’t give up. If you keep moving forward, if you keep trying to better your situation, it will work out. I look back at things that have happened in my life that at the time were extremely difficult and I can chart how that experience changed the course of my life and made me who I am today. I would never change that for anything.

It may be hard to see the good in your experience when it’s happening to you. You may not be able to even imagine how it might work out in the end, but know that if you keep trying to push through it eventually you will. God or the universe or however you want to think of it will not give you an experience that you cannot deal with. Don’t fall down on your hands and knees thinking, “Why me?” Get up and start figuring out what you need to do to get out of that situation.

One day you’ll look up and notice that the clouds have parted. You may not even know when it happened exactly, but it will and you’ll be grateful that you learned that lesson and were able to move a little bit closer to becoming who you were meant to be.

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