A student of mine broke her ankle doing a jumping kick in my martial arts class last night.
…And this was literally a few weeks after she just got her boot off from having broken that same ankle just a few months ago.
Another student has been trying to come back from a similar broken bone situation… but keeps getting slammed with various colds and sicknesses.
…And, to her dismay, has only been able to attend a handful of classes over the course of two months.
Another student came up to me last night and told me some heartbreaking news that… on top of the surgery she might have to get on her hip… and on top of the sicknesses that keep coming up in her family… her mom got diagnosed with cancer.
Life, like mother nature herself, has seasons.
Sometimes its sunny and seventy; and sometimes it’s hella cloudy and rainy.
…And sometimes, as the expression goes, it doesn’t just rain—it pours.
It’s hard to know what to say in these situations because there aren’t any words that’ll keep a person dry when it’s pouring rain and they’re already wet.
…But, maybe if you can let them know you’ll be there with them as the pouring rain comes down, and that there’s an umbrella you can share, and that you’ll be a source of warmth for them as the cold, heavy drops carry more and more of their warmth away and into the ground…
…Maybe you can make the storm suck a little less and help them see their way to the other side.