31 Moments in Time :: nothing... nothing...

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This photo was taken at the mouth of the Platte River in Benzie County. It's a place I have always loved to go since my mom moved us north from Detroit after my dad died. I was 12. To me there is something very wondrous about a river releasing all of its' treasures that it has held tightly for so long. Releasing them to be free to swim in the direction of their own choosing... sort of like my dad being released from his wheelchair and his prison of paralysis to a street made of gold that he can dance down. This was our only attempt this summer at catching a sunset, mostly because the summer sun sets so late in these parts and I'm just too exhausted to not be in bed before it is! Wouldn't you know it, even though the sky was clear there were low lying clouds on the horizon and we got nothing... nothing. A trip to the water however is never wasted if one is willing to improvise. Instead of enjoying the sunset, I took a moment to let my soul breathe, to just be... nothing... nothing. Maybe that's what God knew I needed. Had there been a sunset I would have been oohing and aahing over it, chatting with our friends that were with us and missing the blessing that God had for me. Blessings don't always look like we think they should. We want pretty packaging, not dark and dreary, sunshine not shadows, joy not sorrow. Sometimes God's greatest blessings come from the hardest times in our lives, the times we would never choose to go through. God always, always creates something out of that which looks like nothing... nothing. *************************************************************************************************** 30 days to go, 30 stories to tell. Some will be joyous, some will be sorrowful, most will be ordinary. Life is made up mostly of ordinary days full of ordinary people doing ordinary things. Walk with me on my mission to embrace the ordinary, to be real, to be flawed, to be perfectly imperfect and be okay with that.