One major problem is resolved today even without the win of a court case to help us. My heart is filled with a deep peace and serenity to see the joy in other hearts. For the confirmation of the good news to come on a Wednesday, a day I dedicate to St. Joseph, means a lot to me. It says to me that St. Joseph heard a mother’s plea.
Looking back over our journey these past few months especially, something stands out – after struggles, consolation comes, but it lasts for short time before another struggle looms bigger. I often felt as if we needed to ask for grace and strength and hope – every few days. It puzzled me why grace didn’t seem to last very long. Often I wondered if it meant that I wasn’t being grateful enough or if I was blind and deaf to what God had so kindly laid out for me.
While it is all that as well, it came to me today that perhaps this is what it feels like when it gets closer to a summit. When the path gets steeper towards the end, consolation gets replaced by a new need ever so often, making us seek new light from heaven just as soon as we have been comforted.
I may never know the answer to it. In some ways today, it matters not either. As the eastern skies burst into a blaze of silvery orange, I know that in this one grief of ours, the old words I heard one still dawn 14 years ago, Sorrow before joy, has come true.
Grief has indeed become joy.
I don’t know the details but it is enough to know that you have found some joy! I will rejoice with you and as the trials of tomorrow approach I will pray for any tears to turn to laughter! ❤
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Rejoice away, Val! You are part of this joy. All the prayers, all the support, even the fun things which took my mind off things. May my spirit learn the strength it needs for the days ahead.
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I am so happy to read this today!!! Wishing you blessings!
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Thanks so much, Linda. There were some very hard days but your prayers and sharing and love got me through many a day, to this point of joy. Every time things seemed so dark, there’d be something from you which the angels would bring me and I would remember to live for God once more.
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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