Monsoon season continues here in southern Ohio. To be fair, it doesn’t rain all the time. Sometimes it’s dry and blistering hot. Regardless, you can be sure the humidity will be over 90 percent so there’s absolutely no reason to put a lot of work into your hair.

So far this year, I’m growing a terrific crop of weeds with a few flowers in the middle and I can’t begin to keep up with the work.

Yesterday, I stood at the window watching an absolute deluge run off my already saturated yard as cars puttered by with their windshield wipers on high. The rain was hard enough to practically knock down a small child but it wasn’t enough to break the flowers outside my window.

How is it that a steady drip of water can reshape rock but a storm like that can’t damage the petals of these flowers?

I don’t know the answer to that question but it got me to thinking about resilience.

Humans experience all manner of storms in life. I couldn’t begin to list the ways that illness, money, job loss, death, depression, and the corrupt world around us can bring relentless downpours of problems into our lives.

Some people lose their footing and never find their way back while others get knocked down but manage to pop up again. A few never fall at all.

Those who nurture their minds and spirits to be resilient always find a way to not let the storm ruin them. They don’t let the deluge of troubles damage their petals.

What do these people have that makes them better able to resist the challenges life throws at them? How do they keep standing against life’s storms?

Maybe it’s stubbornness. Perhaps it’s a sheer will to keep going, to never let life steal their joy and calm. Maybe it’s an inner toughness.

Whatever that quality is, I wish for you that you find it in yourself. I suspect it’s there in all of us if we dig deep enough.

There’s no rain in the forecast today but you can be sure I’ll be ready with a cute umbrella if it does come back. You can’t stop the rain but you can be prepared.

Have a good, dry day, friends!