Rain … And Growth

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“The best thing one can do when it’s rain­ing is to let it rain.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The last cou­ple of days in our “neck of the woods” have been rainy ones. And this got me to think­ing about rain, and the growth that comes from it. The rain feeds the soil and all things that grow from it.

Our lives are like this. We grow when we have been “rained” on. Rain, in this case, would be all the things that come over us. Things like books we read, or con­ver­sa­tions with old friends, or dialogs with new peo­ple, or classes taken at the local com­mu­nity col­lege, or … the list can go on and on. Every­thing that we encounter is a chance for us to grow. Some­times we grow inten­tion­ally (tak­ing a course at a local school, for exam­ple) and some­times we grow unin­ten­tion­ally (unplanned con­ver­sa­tion with a col­league by the cof­fee machine, for example).

Unlike the plants and grass that grow nat­u­rally because of the rain, the growth we expe­ri­ence because of the “rain” we get isn’t always as nat­ural or auto­matic. We need to inten­tion­ally look for the growth we can get from all of our “rain”. And when we do this, we’ll real­ize that the world is ours to learn and grow from.

What a great real­iza­tion this is! See­ing the world and all of our inter­ac­tions with it as oppor­tu­ni­ties for learn­ing and growth gives you a lim­it­less future! So, go out there, expe­ri­ence what the world has to offer, then learn and grow from it. And then … go out and share, and make this world a bet­ter place!

Lance writes sto­ries from his heart, aim­ing to inspire and moti­vate, as you align more fully with YOUR true peak. When he’s not here, you can find him hang­ing out with his fam­ily, rid­ing a bike, or just gen­er­ally act­ing goofy.   Sign up for the Thoughts from the Tree­house newslet­ter and get addi­tional inspi­ra­tion in your email inbox!

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