Just Grateful

We headed home, on the inland island highway tonight, it's an hour drive we do often....so often that the ocean and mountain vistas sometimes blend into the background as mundane...

But tonight those vistas seemed different....

Maybe it's the way the pink light danced through the storm clouds in the distance or the sun shining like pennies on the water, or the many shades of purple cast by the  mainland mountains across the straight....

As I soaked in the beautiful drive I just felt so grateful....

Grateful that we are on the other side of a few difficult weeks. Grateful that joy always comes again. Grateful that there are people in our lives that walk beside us in the storms and in the sunshine. Grateful that we live in a place were God's beauty reminds us often of his power and his love.

Just grateful.