STORMS Last week we had a snow storm. A beautiful fresh white canvas of snow was given to us. In this storm it brought beauty, peace, calm, stillness, and smiles. Lots of smiles. But not all storms bring beauty. Not all of our personal storms are beautiful….they aren’t so peaceful…they don’t bring calm and stillness and certainly not smiles. But even though they don’t bring us this…could they be beneficial to us? This is our word for the week in Proverbs 31 OBS and I’m taking this in a different direction. Dictionary.com defines beneficial as: “conferring benefit, advantageous; helpful.” Is this storm helpful? What I determine to be beneficial may not be what you determine beneficial and I’m betting it’s not what God determines to be beneficial. I only see what is right in front of me- I can’t see all that God sees. My seeing is not omniscient. ...