Sunshine!

I’ve got sunshine, on a cloudy day. When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May. I guess you’d say, what can make me feel this way? My guy!
It’s sunny outside today. I stood outside with my face toward the sun and that song popped into my head. The longer I stood there, the brighter the sun shone. Of course my guy makes me feel warm all over but what really came to mind was 1st John Chapter 2. This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. Later it goes to say, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shinning.
Go outside and enjoy the first rays of spring and remember as you stand there, someday, when you’re in the presence of God, it will feel like those first rays of sunshine on a spring day. It will be warm and bright and nothing will change. No darkness, no cold. That silly groundhog will never see a shadow because the light won’t be from the sun. It will just be.
It’s been a hard few weeks. Reanna had strep and she has mono. Raina has such a bad cold the outside of her face is swollen. I’ve never seen anything like it. Basketball season has ended for Raina and Reanna’s first playoff game is tomorrow. Reanna’s science fair project didn’t win. She is so discouraged. She has tried so many things this year and she doesn’t feel like she’s accomplished anything. Of course, as I viewed the other science fair projects I realized hers seemed to be the only original project. When she wasn’t elected student body president, I knew she had put her heart into it and she’d be hurt. She has had no sunshine for a long time. She’s also been sick for a long time. I don’t think she’s been 100% since before Christmas. She is so resilient and so beautiful. She just doesn’t know it yet. I wish she could stand outside and feel the warmth of the first sunshine and realize God’s love for us shines so much brighter than those rays. Or in her case, I should say Rae’s.
I love my kids. I love my husband. I can’t imagine it’s going to get better, but it is. There’s sunshine!