Storms are part of life. We go through painful trials, experience heartaches, and go through low valleys in our journey of life. We come to realize that life is not as smooth as we had expected. However, even though we cannot avoid suffering, we can choose our response to the suffering. We can either choose to give up and live defeated lives full of anger and bitterness, or we can choose to rise above the storms and use the pain to propel us forward and upwards. When we decide to rise above the storms, we refuse to allow suffering to weigh us down, instead, we learn through the sufferings and