The Daily Mural Of My Life

                Last night during dinner I sat and listened to my beautiful teammates chatter about the day. Almost every evening here so far, there have been spectacular sunsets. After dinner while my team was still conversing, I decided to take a moment to really see the sunset.

                I passed a couple of girls on their way back from taking a photograph of the miraculous mural in front of me. As I stood there, I asked once again the same prayer I´ve been praying for months. To feel God again. To know He is there. I know, but I want to feel again. I spent too much time this last year figuring out new ways to numb myself from feeling anything that sometimes I still feel as though I´m having to thaw myself out.

              However, as I stood on this cliff, overlooking the lake, trees surrounding me, various birds singing to the Lord, fishermen walking deep in the water throwing nets for their next meal, and this new snowflake-theory sunset prevailing over me, it hit me.

             This is God. He is trying to show me Himself again, he´s just taking a different approach. He´s trying to reveal the beauty of the Spirit that I´ve learned to overlook in my struggles and routines. I´m a very distracted person. Usually I would look, not really understand why people would stand there so long, and be done. I´d move on to the next thing in mere seconds.

             But I stood there. I knew He was there. He´s making me really see the beauty and magnificence He created for me. He paints me masterpieces daily, and daily I overlook them.

             Then, this bird flew over to a rock. Wings spanned out, head focused, and in a swift movement landed with no turbulence. If you weren´t paying attention you would have missed it. To me this bird was a gift.

             Like God flying towards me as I seek Him. With tender movements, and awareness of the creations below him, he moved about the rock. Gradually he moved to walk across the water, making ever so slightly ripples in His vast creation for us.

            He was in His righteous place. At peace, because He was at home. As the sunset started to slip away, I realized it wasn´t leaving me. God was cleansing His palate to romance me with another mural full of my life story.

            Within all the darkness that I can focus on, He created the stars to see His light shining down on me and inside of me. And when I acknowledge them, they shine with a light that can only be recognized as the Glory of God.

ALSO: The regulations of these computers are still weird for me, so I will post pictures of this sunset soon!