February 4

The weather was all over the place today: torrential downpours, dark clouds, thunder, high winds, and blue skies with fluffy white clouds and sunshine.

This was the view from our bedroom window at around 4 PM, after one bands of rain roared through and before the next rolled in.

Taken as a whole, our weather today was a metaphor for human life: highly variable, with significant periods of both storminess and sunshine; with struggles and good times. 

And as the picture suggests, there's always blue sky above the storm clouds, even when we can't see it. So for that truth --for the knowledge that God is always with us and always good, even when that seems untrue-- I'm grateful.