Beautiful Storm

Today, I drove back from visiting Liana in SB for her birthday. That storm almost kept me from getting down there for the weekend because it was really rainy and windy. I was really frustrated and disappointed when I woke up on Friday morning to find the weather so horrible threatening to cancel my trip. I didn't understand what reason God would have for keeping me from celebrating a friend's birthday with her. But isn't that usually the case. I never understand what's going on, I just get frustrated when my plans are thwarted.

But anyway, driving back this morning, the sky was absolutely beautiful. It was half stormy half clear blue practically the whole way. I wanted so badly to take a picture but I know it wouldn't have captured the breath-taking beauty that God had place in that view for me. It was the hardest thing for me to focus on the road and the cars instead of just looking up at the sky. And even though I know that ignoring the "world" in that type a situation is just plain dumb and reckless, there's something about the contrast I felt and the way I was drawn to looking at the sky. I wish that Heaven and God and other spiritual matters were as captivating to me all the time as that sky was today because I know that's how it should be.