Day 200

"Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass, its about learning to dance in the rain."
~Unknown

Grateful for beauty before me

it stormed on Big Round.
It was hot. It was humid.  It was sooo hot.
We listened to the thunder and the rain.  We stayed in the cabin, waiting for the storm to pass. 
Then...we all saw the sky.  Right outside the windows of the cabin.
Pink.
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The sky in front of us turned pink, and Big Round Lake turned pink as well.
It was the single most beautiful thing I had seen in a long time.
It took me away from my "smart phone" and it took me away from the daily bs.
It brought me to feeling like God was right in front of me.
I shared the pink sky with the girls, with all 11 cousins.
How beautiful our world can be.
IF you put down the phone...if you put away your worries.  If you just be.
It is enough.
It is soooo enough.
The beauty I saw here, we all saw here...is something that doesn't happen everyday. Thank you Big Round, for showing us more beauty than usual this year.  You reminded me that each day we have is truly a gift.  Truly a gift to do with what we choose.  We make or break our day.
God helps us, but in the end, our decisions are ours.
This day...was a good one.  All 19 of us.  Together. In Hayward.
All 19 of us laughing, talking, sharing stories and making new memories.
That...is what life is about.
Thank you, God, for the pink sky, because this became part of our story.
Thanks to you.
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