holding your hat on in the teeth of a gale

There are storm force winds piling in across the country and of course, this is the day we are driving right across the country; from Cambridgeshire to Oxfordshire to Hampshire and we will be meeting weather all the way.  So we will have to  hold our mettle as well and hold on our hats in the teeth of the gale when we get there.  There is such a temptation to stay here, to cite the weather as the reason why we shouldn't go but there is a compelling reason for going.  I hardly need to give you the analogy of using determination to do the thing you would perhaps rather not do; in my mind there has to be a compelling reason to meditate and this is a blog about meditation of course I am going to say that you need to be determined to meditate even if you don't really feel like it.  You can see who isn't at all determined to do anything other than be as comfortable as they can, no going out in the wind for them! and no meditation either today.