In the hog business a storm means one thing; mud. Pigs love mud as many people may know. Pigs are stereotyped as dirty smelly animals that roll around in the mud all day. Well it time to quash that belief. Pigs cannot sweat so they use the mud to keep themselves cool. Pigs are actually one of the cleanliest farm animals because they don't dispel waste where they eat and sleep. Anyway after a storm the pigs will go crazy running around in the mud till they are covered snout to tail and you can't tell one from the other.
Storms do the same thing they smear the truth. One of my favorite sayings is "someone will believe a lie because they want it to be true or because they are scared that it is true". Storms bring out our greatest fear and sometimes we believe these fear to be truth simple because we don't want them to be true.
After the mud is washed away from the pigs it is easy to see which pig is which, and you wonder how you ever got a white pig confused with a black one.
After the storm clears away you look outside. See the sun beginning to shine through warming the earth with its soft supple glow. Or maybe you even see a rainbow, Gods promise to the earth. As you see the light and the good you wonder why you ever doubted that things weren't under control. You think that wasn't so bad.
The storms are actually good for the pigs it gives them a chance to have fun exercise and to cool off from the brutal heat pounding down on the day after day.
Seek strength to make it through the next storm. You may or may not know when it is coming, you watch the weather but even that is a guessing game. Storms aren't all bad take hope in this fact, "Consider pure joy my brothers whenever you face trial of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith that develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1:2-4
The wind is shifting all around us. Don't let it blow you away, weather the storms.
