Gain perspective- go above the clouds

I remember my first plane ride. It was raining heavily for a long time, and on my way to the airport it felt like that’s all there was ever going to be…rain and wind. The plane took off during a lull in the wind, and we climbed into the rain clouds. We kept ascending, and finally popped through the clouds and into the brilliant sunshine, which I hadn’t seen in about a week.

At that moment it occurred to me that it’s always sunny above the clouds, and if we can just get there, it will be fine. Think of the sky above the worst hurricane- it’s ALWAYS sunny during the day and starry at night.

We often get mired in our day-to-day downpours and hurricanes, and forget that it’s sunny somewhere else, and will be sunny again shortly, and to regain perspective, it's often enough to remember that above the rain is sunshine.