We have spent a lot of time learning to live our new normal while continuing to move forward in our personal lives and ministry. Everyone handles grief differently. Everyone handles trials differently. For me, I have tried to be intentional about seeing God in the details of our lives.
My girls were playing outside in our front yard on a beautiful, clear day. While we were outside, I received a message from one of my workers. The message asked if I could see the rainbow. We looked all around us and we did not see one sign of a rainbow. Everything looked exactly the same as always.
While our house is situated high on the mountain, the worker was at the land on the bottom of the mountain and looking from the distance. His perspective was much different than our perspective.
From his viewpoint, he saw a beautiful rainbow high in the clear, blue sky and directly over our entire house. From our perspective, we were living our very mundane, normal life. We were looking, but we saw nothing.
When I received the picture of the rainbow, it was a sweet reminder of the promises from the Lord. It was a reminder that sometimes we are standing in the middle of the storm unaware of the rainbow behind us. We are feeling the heat from walking through the fire unaware that the Lord is walking with us and ahead of us. We are continuing to be faithful in the everyday, mundane things unaware that the Lord is always working behind the scenes.
I am grateful that the Lord only ask me to trust him in the waiting. To know that even when I can’t see His goodness, He is faithful with His promises.
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
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