Why is it that rain (along with the dark, dismal, foul sky) always comes forth in the Pittsburgh area on the weekend? Just watch, on Monday it will be sunny and splendid. Don't believe me? Check it out:
It almost never seems to fail.
I feel as if I am living in Seattle, Washington. Might as well be.
Or could it be that I am in a miserable mood because when I looked out the window this morning, the sky was dull and bleak which then shifted my mood accordingly? Yea, that's more like it.
Can you tell that I am in a rather melancholy mood this afternoon? I looked up the phrase "this too shall pass" via Google and the fourth result down the list presented me with this poem:
This Too Shall Pass
If I can endure for this minute
Whatever is happening to me,
No matter how heavy my heart is
Or how dark the moment may be-
If I can remain calm and quiet
With all the world crashing about me,
Secure in the knowledge God loves me
When everyone else seems to doubt me-
If I can but keep on believing
What I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with the morning
And that this will pass away, too-
Then nothing in life can defeat me
For as long as this knowledge remains
I can suffer whatever is happening
For I know God will break all of the chains
That are binding me tight in the darkness
And trying to fill me with fear-
For there is no night without dawning
And I know that my morning is near.
- Helen Steiner Rice
Very appropriate considering the mood I am in. What a great poem, too.
Actually, I am feeling a little better already.