unexpected weather

rain, sun, snow? the weather is unpredictable. thus is life huh?

read a bit today about life being unexpected but the truth that things will eventually go bad for us all...eventually we all suffer...but it is what you choose to do with that suffering that determines the outcome.

The problem is that we resist suffering with might and main. There is a natural inertia built into the human condition that seeks the comfortable, the familiar, the secure. We want to shape life to our specifications and fix it there. We want stability. When life become difficult, the temptation is to want to reach the summits we can see, to settle down there, to turn our worlds into stone. We fossilize our hearts. We say this is enough. We limit our vision to what we can grasp without strain. We spend life trying to settle down, satisfied with where we've come, in control of where we are. Ironically, it is stability- homeostasis, the failure to adjust, to grow, to change- that threatens to destroy the very system it sets out to save.

- joan chittister