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ARE YOU HAVING A DIVINE STORM?

THE MESSAGE IN THE MADNESS

Mastin Kipp is a 30-year-old entrepreneurial storyteller from Los Angeles, CA. He is the founder of www.TheDailyLove.
com (TDL), the Website, daily email and Twitter account that’s merging pop culture with inspiration.

Before I tell you about my My Divine Storm was upon me. I thought things were already
Divine Storm, I want to define as bad as they could get—I was losing my business, I had lost
the term. A Divine Storm is a my best friend, and I was back on Adderall. But I didn’t know
period of time (it could be a day, the half of it. What was coming next would test every shred of
a week, a month, a year, or an faith I had in myself and in the Divine.
era) where it literally seems like Everything I had come to Love in this new “spiritual” phase of
the whole world—the entire Uni- my life was being taken from me. It felt like God was pull-
verse and even God—is against you. It’s a time when ing the rug out from under me, for no reason. The following
everything falls apart and there seems to be no way out. It’s a events all happened over the course of one week:
time of massive pain. Ultimately, Divine Storms come to clear
out whatever is not a part of your next layer of growth. But • The Buddhist girl I was dating broke up with me.
depending on how stubborn you are, they can shake you pretty • John and I ended our business relationship.
bad. • Our company Love Yourself died.
• My roommate told me he was moving out in 30 days.
Here’s one of my favorite Daily Love tweets: • Our initial investors in Love Yourself told us that they had
The Universe has shaken you to awaken you. lost 70 percent of their wealth in the stock crash and reces-
sion.
The Divine doesn’t act according to your own desires or expec- • My lower back went out.
tations. The Divine knows you better than you know yourself. • I got gout (yes, gout) in my left big toe.
It sweeps in to clean the slate, to force you to give up what
you have not been willing to surrender. In other words, when It was one of the worst weeks I’d ever had. Worse than all
you utter the phrase “Thy will be done,” expect all hell to those years ago when I was on cocaine and drinking all the
break loose. time and got fired. Because Love Yourself wasn’t just a cloth-
ing company to me. It was who I was. It was my identity, and

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