My last post relating to the “feeling normal” came over me while I was cleaning up dinner dishes and watching a storm roll in around our beach. Sunset was trying so hard to come through the clouds but the rolling thunder cracked it’s whip and snapped it back. It was the beauty of nature in all it’s glory. The melancholy came over me as I walked out to the deck. Hot tears flowing, feeling the beauty of God all around me. Calm, easy and relieved. The pictures I share below were snapped during that moment. As I walked past Larkin with my camera I held it up at her and the red light caught her attention and she cheesed so big with her smile. Then I hit the deck and snapped the beauty of sunset struggling to smash through those thunder heads. The lesson was not lost on me. I realized that God’s light would always shine through no matter what the obstacle. What seems to be ominous, dark, scary, stronger then you – with God’s Grace you can over come it. Larkin is my ray of sunset and sunshine. She has smashed through the darkness (with a lot of drugs mind you) and taught us that Faith, Hope and Love – the greatest of these is Love – will take a family through the thunder heads. Keep the Faith as my friend Amy in Georgia says. Keep the Faith when the darkness seems to envelope all that you are and have. Keep the Faith when the thunder cracks it’s whip and keep going. Noah had the promise of the rainbow when he opened up the Ark. The peace that feel over my soul during that sunset breaking through – makes me wonder if that is just how he felt.
