I came around the corner and my pace was lacking. Everything inside me felt tired, worn down, desperate and drawn out. The need to gravitate to a better me can be exhausting. Today it weighed in on me with a heaviness I hate. I felt sorely discouraged.
Then an amazing thing happened... I looked up! One single act changed everything.
Immediately every weighed out thought lifted. It disappeared in a single glance as I stood gazing at spring's first green. And as if God had waved a magic wand banishing all discouraged thought, peace, joy, and love took hold of me.
I marvel at God's ability to love. His love is constant yet instantaneous and often comes when I least expect it. Always, without exception, it lifts the heavy heart.
God's love is everywhere. If I listen I can hear it. If I look I can see it. And if I open my heart to Him, I can feel it. His love is in the color of the sky. It is in the song of each little bird flitting from branch to branch with excitement as new life begins again. And today I found it growing on a giant willow.
Happily, I finished the intended five miles. Then I grabbed my camera, got in my car, and came back for the picture. The picture of God's love.
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