count your blessings...

My son text me about what looked like an awesome sunset developing and wanted to know if I had time to go shoot it with him. As we raced around to pick up his camera I could see the cloud bank on the horizon was thickening and was going to totally block out the sun... but we drove to the beach anyways and walked along the shore to take some pictures of the clouds because thats all that was left. Then as we stood there the clouds seemed to break apart just for us and a glimps of tomorrow broke through.

 

I prayed for a lot of specific things this past year... and not many things went as I wanted them. Today I slowed down long enough to reflect with a true friend some of the things that might have gone unnoticed, but were in fact direct answers to some of those prayers... sometimes the answers shine through clearly and other times it gets obscured with a few clouds. Today I realized that those clouds can be beautiful as well...

 

I am praying that we can all appreciate a few clouds in our lives this next year and look for God's answers in them as well...

Done