Head Toward the Storm!

I heard a great analogy that I thought might help someone. The person was an expert in grief who had also worked with buffalo and shared how when a storm is coming, buffalo move toward the storm because they instinctively know that doing so will make that storm pass more quickly. But we, as humans, often try to run away from the storm, prolonging it as it continuously hovers over us.

I think many people struggle to sit with their grief. They either do so to avoid the pain or to avoid the shame. Perhaps they never learned to cope with the past or perhaps they have been made to believe that their grief didn’t matter compared to someone else’s. But the grief you feel will only linger and consume you if you don’t head into the storm and deal with it head-on.

Don’t be afraid to accept the grief you are currently experiencing or is lingering in the back of your heart and mind. It’s okay to work through it because once it’s behind you, it will better equip you to help others going through the same thing. And that’s the thing with pain and grief, it can consume us, or it can be redeemed for good. Don’t let it go to waste, head toward the storm so you can get through it and come out the other side!

“𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ, 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑎, 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑎𝑚, 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔.” (𝑃𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑠 45:1-3)