Count Your Blessings Month
“‘You are my lamp, O Lord;
the LORD turns my darkness into light.’”
2 Samuel 22:29 (NIV)
Because of the way God made me, I enjoy sunshiny days. An
overcast day can send me into the doldrums-nothing seems to go as it should.
Several years ago I voiced my concern about having no
sunshine for days on end one winter. It went like this:
ME: Why doesn’t the
sun shine? I’m getting tired of this.
SON: The sun always
shines. It’s the clouds that get in the way.
My son was in junior high school at the time. I didn’t
consider him an upstart for this comment; he had heard it at church, so had I
but it didn’t register.
One of the blogs I frequent had a question about how we
managed through the overcast days of winter. I left the comment that I started
out each day by spending time with God. This helps me more than I realized.
Blessed with sunshine... I can relate to your concern... here in Holland we go days and days and sometimes weeks without sunshine in winter... it is very hard NOT to complain. But I have decided to seek his light each morning :)
ReplyDeleteMarja:
DeleteThank you for stopping by. I like your thought of seeking His light each morning. I try to follow that same rule.
I like your son's answer. I'll be happy to live in Heaven, where there's no need of sun, because Jesus' face lights the whole place!
ReplyDeleteJeanette:
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping in. About heaven,I have days where I look forward to being there.