(Hers is the hipstamatic style on the bottom -- like my phone, my camera is not "smart.")
Monday, December 5, 2011
The Same Sunset
My college roommate and I have a very special connection that has lasted through many years, many tears but mostly joy and lots of missing each other! The other night, I ran outside to grab a picture of a gorgeous sunset that was obviously just getting started here in Georgia as it headed West to glow over Colorado a short while later. She sent me this picture the very same night. I like to think its just one more way we share a brain cell and a love of God's creations across the miles. It's a gift to have her (and so many other blessings like her) in my life!
(Hers is the hipstamatic style on the bottom -- like my phone, my camera is not "smart.")
(Hers is the hipstamatic style on the bottom -- like my phone, my camera is not "smart.")
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Beautiful!!! I love seeing the colors God creates. It is an easy way to start a conversation about God's perfect imagination and creativity with kids. He didn't have to make the sunrises and sunsets colorful and majestic, did He? :) Praise Him that He did! Awesome that y'all have that connection across the miles.
Thanks Amy -- it's true. My jaded guys can almost always be brought down to humility by nature, it's pretty darn cool. And yes, so is my college roomie! Much love....
I apologize for my silence. Just read this last night. Thank you, dear Meg. We really need to start work on picking out that retirement home where we'll be roommates once again. Both dated boys named Hal, both like BLUE sweaters, both take photos of the same sunset... Blessings to you.
My next door neighbor asked me to post this great comment for her:
I am once again blessed to view our sunset here in Madison, GA. At times in my life there have been small things at key moments that I view or hear that aid in getting me over humps. In this season of my life the sunsets are one of them. No matter what is happening in my life, on occasion, I can step out my back door and when God chooses to give paint the sky, I gasp again, marvel at them and breathe them in. Peace washes over my soul and I am renewed. As I whisper 'thank you Lord' I almost believe He blessed me with this place simply to show off His sunsets but no, that would be limiting Him, there are multi and vast blessings I have received since arriving here almost 8 years ago. I do not believe, however, that sunsets are prettier anywhere else in the world than out our back door, Meg. I'm glad to know I now share them with you.
We also see rainbows (sometimes double ones) over the pasteur off the road prior to our homes. I just pause and say 'Lord, that's YOUR promise and Your promises according to Your Word are Yea and Amen'. Then I think, 'which promise will I choose'? His promises are also multi and vast so I pick one, claim it by the rainbow, smile, thank Him and drive on.
TERRI C ABBOTT
'It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ. ' Max Lucado.
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