Poem for the day...

A good friend emailed me a poem this morning...I had to share.

If You Want Rainbows, You Gotta Have Rain

In a perfect world,
Everything would always go right.
There would be no disappointments or trials,
And life would be filled with only
Sweet, warm and fuzzy feelings.

But how would we know
If things were good if we had no comparison?
Would we recognize the blessings in our lives
Without having the opposite to compare them to?
Without the darkness,
Would we appreciate the light?

Seems to me that if we want rainbows,
We gotta have rain.
The trick is to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps
And go out and look for puddles to play in,
Recognize the tempest for what it is,
And train ourselves to look for the good in every situation.
By overcoming our adversity, we find the joy in everything.
So go on, go play in the rain.

-Suzy Toronto