by Jesse James

Created on: October 14, 2009   Last Updated: October 18, 2009

There seems to be a magical web that connects all the events in our lives. Without fail, situations seem to flow effortlessly from one to the next. What they bring with them is the hard part to accept, especially when they bring the challenges that we must face in life. Luckily, through the good, the bad, and all of the uncontrollable variables in our lives, there is one thing we have complete control over. That is the way that we approach these situations.

In the middle of the storm, things are always going to look worse. You can't see behind you clearly to see how exactly you got here, and you can't see far enough ahead to see a way out. So, there you sit in the middle with the rest of the world swirling around you, throwing everything off course. Most often, these situations don't appear in our lives with a set reason, or a clear path. They seem to slowly creep up and hit us when the moment is just right. When we are least expecting it. Sometimes it almost feels as though everything had been going just fine, how could it all go so marvelously wrong so quickly? The question is now, where do we go and how?

Sitting in the middle of that storm, trying desperately to see an opening can be rather overwhelming. Most, if not all, of us have been there. At some point, you come to fork in the road internally. You can either sink down and hide from the issue. Pretend as if it wasn't there by plugging your ears and closing your eyes. Or, you can stand up, hold on tight, and push through with all of your might. Now, there's no right or wrong way, there is just simply a choice. We have all gone both roads at some point and still came out of the storm. However, the difference is, how much stronger you came out of the storm.

The biggest gains often come from the biggest gambles. The moment you decide in yourself that you are going to stand up and fight, then you have already gained, or reclaimed, back your power in the situation. If you face that storm and decide no matter what, you are walking through, then you have already taken away some of the storms tenacity. The moment you realize you have done that, you can take back control of the situation. Getting to that point is the hardest part though. It requires you to reach down, find some little glimpse of faith in yourself, grab it and go for it.

If you have an honest faith in yourself to get through, you will. Granted, you may be a bit bruised and scarred, but those are battle scars. They are your lessons that will stick

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