Just when all is dark - even when it has gone on dark for a while,
and you are waiting for the season to pass,
light slowly creeps back in.
Barely detectable at first.
But then you begin to feel hope and happiness again.
Your heart begins to warm.
Then it just bursts out, and you look up...you notice.
Because your heart feels so much better when the dark season is over.
Everything feels sweet again.
Joy seeps in, laughter is real, contentment finds its way back, food tastes good...
And though you've passed through the valley,
you wonder if you will ever be the same as before you entered...
You want to be the same,
but would that defeat going through the valley in the first place?
What do you leave and what does God want you to use?
How to be a good steward of a dark season? Of sorrow?
I suppose the wrestling of questions like these is just part of coming out of the valley...
Praise God,
joy does come in the morning,
and for the hilltops,
and the plateaus....
Aawww, sweet plateaus.
I'd like to camp here for a while...
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