Winter's winds

I spent the day in bed. I wish it could have been for the purpose of being lazy but it was not. However, despite being in pain I was able to look out my window and watch the clouds roll over the mountains. There is something so amazing about this time of the year. The trees have lost all but a few leaves. Those that still cling to their branches can barely hold on and quiver in the wind. Sometimes I feel like one of those leaves. I am barely hanging on and one more blow of the winds of change will cause me to lose hold and be swept away. As the dark grayish blue clouds rolled over the mountains the sky darkened. Then, suddenly, the sun burst through the clouds and caused the tree I was watching to glow in the sunlight. It turned almost white against the backdrop of the dark clouds. At that moment, all the pain I was in fell away and I sat there in wonder.

Even during times of great pain, be it physical, emotional, or spiritual, God shows us good and beauty. I believe it is in those times that our faith is growing. That beauty, wonder, and good is God at work in our hearts. That realization that there is light even during a time that seems to grow ever darker, allows us to realize that even if we do get swept away in life's wind storms God is always right there with us. In fact, God is the creator of the wind storms. Where ever the winds of change take us, at least we know that God is the one carrying us.