Before the Storm

May 11, 2008
12:46 AM

I knew when I was scrapbooking that the hardest pages would be the ones from last spring; that is how I remember him; how he is real to me.  I wanted to get those done while away from home and several times, I tried to go to the end and work backwards but I just couldn't do it. I  was compelled to go in order for some reason or another.  As I was doing those spring pages this week,  I was thinking about what a fun time that was.  There were some hard times too, but Knox was so much fun; we had a lot of gorgeous weather for playing outside; my parents came for a long visit with lots of fun activities....I was thinking about how lots of time the sky is beautiful right before a storm, and that was what I was reminded of...the beauty right before the storm.  Life was, in fact, regardless of any minor difficulties beautiful at that time.  I looked at all the pictures of him playing and smiling, of loving and being loved, and then the storm hit, one of those violent ones that come out of nowhere, the kind that follow a beautiful sky, but we weathered the storm.  It hit fast and furious and left behind a lot of damage; not the kind of damage that can be fixed overnight, but the kind that takes time and patience to repair and still leaves thing not as they were but patched up.  We know and cling to the fact that the beautiful sky and the violent storm are both wonders of God; both display His power and His glory and both we accept equally.