Beautiful things

This last week was so crazy. Everyday can be marked with something bad happening. Whenever I would share what was going on in my life, it just seemed unreal. The break-in, the break-downs, and the broken hearts left in the wake of a loved one's passing. I mean it was just so amazing. Not to mention the people of Haiti, who's lives have been so devastatingly altered.

However, and this may seem trite, I noticed a passage in Ecclesiastes that has kinda gripped me. I have heard the passage in Chapter 3 many times and know the song pretty well. "To every thing, turn, turn, turn. There is a season, turn ..." Anyway, you get it. If we will go past the parts everybody knows about a time for this and a time for that, there we will find in verse 11 "He hath made every thing beautiful in His time..."

What a good God we have that He takes the messed up, crazy things and makes them beautiful. Maybe it doesn't seem very terrific at the moment the world comes crashing down around us, but in the aftermath of our destruction and brokenness, if we allow Him, The Lord is there for us. Oh, what tremendous joy and peace can come from the worst of circumstances. Maybe it won't come immediately, but when it comes that is when God has made our "thing" beautiful.