On a walk this afternoon in the windy Waimea rain, I thought about my day and the choices I had made and how differently the day would have turned out had I not chosen to see the good.

My day consisted of two trips to the DMV and vehicle safety check station, internet and phone issues, client requests, and a nagging stiff neck from a tough night of sleep.

I’m usually the first to want to walk it off and head out the door at the end of the day. But today, it was a little harder to choose; it was wet, it was windy, and a warm cup of tea sounded pretty nice.

Even Kinsey gave me her trademark side-eye and sighed as I clipped the leash to her collar.

But I chose to walk anyway.

Because, as we all know, you can’t have rainbows without a little bit of rain. But what we sometimes fail to see is the spots of sunshine that we need too for those rainbows to appear.

This cut barbed wire on an old fence post stopped me today. It looked so gnarled and unforgiving.

But just beyond it was the beauty of a rainbow, and just like that, my eyes shifted their focus. I got to choose to see the good. And what a beautiful choice it was.