South African adventurer and explorer, Alex Harris, and his partner battled horrible storms which made their trek in Antarctica almost unbearable. After two weeks of fighting fierce gale force winds in the cold and snow Harris came to a realization. He’d been daily asking God to change the weather so they could make more progress; so the going wouldn’t be so hard but it eventually dawned on him that what they were experiencing was actually NORMAL weather for Antarctica. He then began to pray, “Lord, …whatever the weather’s gonna be that’s what the weather is, but change my heart. Let me be able to endure it. Gimme the faith, gimme the strength, gimme the endurance to see through this bad patch.” He realized God was speaking to him to teach him not to focus his prayers so much on his circumstances but to realize that God wanted to speak to him in the middle of his circumstances.
After reading about Harris's experience, the Holy Spirit turned on the light for me. I had never thought of it like that, but I had been doing the same thing - asking God to change the weather (circumstances) in my life. So now on my office wall are the words "it's only the weather." This serves as a constant reminder to me that when I'm in the middle of a, seemingly, relentless storm, God is speaking: "It's only the weather....I'm right here with you."
(Thanks to Geoff for making the stick on words for me and to Nicole for the idea!!)
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