The sunshine

I would like to apologize fo the bleakness of yesterday's post but I won't. I promised to always be real and that was real. Grief is like that. You go along smoothly and then fall into a deep dark valley only to go through a tunnel and find sunshine and beauty on the other side. Today, I ecxperienced that beauty. As I sit here on the porch surrounded by the beauty that can only be found in the hills of Virginia I am reminded of God's expertise touch on even the smallest details of life. The birds speaking to each other from one tree to another, the richness of the vines and greeniery lapping at the foot of evey tree. The stillness, the quietness reminding that God is everywhere. Reminding me that I do not travel this journey alone. That He who placed every vine every branch every spider web which is crafted on the dew of the morning is too crafting in me a peace, an assurance that I am not alone and He is still on His throne. That while I may have dark and dreary days the sun/son is with me and so too the sunshine. This morning I am thanking God for years ago placing this family, the Stitelers, in our lives. When Zachary went away to college and was placed with Nathan as a roommate never did we dream how similar our paths would be and how God would design a morning like today in the hospitality of their home to find my way back to sunshine and beauty. That He would give me a night of rest I haven't experienced in months. Yes, God does have a plan and none of this ever catches Him by surprise. This morning, this evening the wedding was all planned before we were ever knitted in our mother's womb. God is so good.