Gotta Have Rain to Get a Rainbow

Morning Mantra: “You have to put up with some rain to get the rainbow.” Life is interesting in the way you must experience the negative to appreciate the positive. We all want to avoid anything negative or unpleasant, but when you think about it, you’d have nothing to compare to if you never experienced the opposite. You must experience pain to understand compassion. You must experience how cruel the world is, to understand the need for kindness. You must know sadness to know happiness. You...