Just Thinking

I've just been thinking how life is many colors. So many beautiful moments, like the joy of Dan and his parents getting to see Amy and baby Swen this week, getting to see him smile and laugh, touching his soft baby skin; enjoying moments with Amy, watching her grow into this beautiful woman and mother. New life, new possibilities, making new memories, enjoying the old stories again, watching Andy Griffith reruns and great movies. Bright, beautiful colors; crisp, cool breezes and dewy leaves and new flower petals; bird songs in the morning. Like the morning scene in the animated Cinderella movie.

Life is also cold, dark, grey, murky colors. I got an email from my cousin Walt today. I had hoped he would update me on his recent surgery and chemo for thyroid cancer. He did not provide that info, but stunned me with the news that his mom (my aunt, my Mom's sister-in-law) died in August, and that his only son committed suicide 3 days ago from a drug overdose. Walt is divorced from his childrens' mom who got full custody of the kids and never allowed Walt to see them again. I can't imagine the pain Walt must be in these days. Please pray for Walt and his wife Annie, and for his ex-wife and also his daughter.

Life is many colors. But in Christ, all things are made new (2 Corinthians 5:17). Just like the most beautiful rainbows come from the heaviest rain storms, Jesus can create beauty from ashes and joy from mourning (Isaiah 61:3). I don't understand it, but I believe it; now I feel the pain of loss, but I will remember God, His song will be with me in the night, and I will praise Him again (Psalm 42).

Color my world, Lord, with hope...
Debbie