After I took this picture, I noticed how much it holds. Bright pink petals still holding their own in the late summer heat, heaping white clouds, strong evergreen pines...but also leaves beginning their autumn descent in hues of orange and yellow, baring branches, and a corner of gray heaviness alongside the blue sky. Thereās a tension of old and new, light and dark, life in both the process of growing and letting go. šæš It seems to me that we are always holding this kind of tension in life in one way or another...the good with the bad, gratitude and grief, beauty and pain. Sometimes it feels like a lot to handle, a lot to take in.
Iām having one of those days when it feels like the gray cloud is taking up more than its fair share of the view - and just in case someone else out there is having that kind of a day, too, hereās evergreen truth for the both of us... It matters that we are here. How we love, how we give of ourselves, and who we are makes a difference, even when we canāt see it.
And even when we canāt feel it,
we are surrounded by love that never gets tired, never gives up, and never leaves. Everything else can get mixed up and change, but the love of Jesus for me and for you stays steady and true.
Weāre on this sometimes crazy, sometimes dark, sometimes mixed-up road together, friend. Letās keep going, pointing out the light and the beauty in the middle of the hard times. Letās keep choosing hope, over and over again, because we know that Love never fails. Letās keep moving and letting go and growing and speaking out and loving each other and believing in the power of redemption...because our story is not over, not by a long shot...and I canāt wait to see where it all goes.
#takecourage #choosehope āWeeping may endure for the night but joy comes in the morning.ā āPsalm 30:5
