Life sometimes seems like a storm.

I know mine does.

Working 16 hours days, being physically and mentally exhausted, looking for the Light at the end of the tunnel…

All too familiar to me lately.

So when Hurricane Sandy hit I was ready to look for a lesson from God.

I started with the obvious. 

The ones about power.  How we take it for granted. About having back-up generators or water reserves.  Spiritually speaking of course.

But the more I thought about those, the more I thought that it was what I was thinking.  That I wanted it to be about power, about the Spirit, about the darkness and the Light.

And don’t get me wrong, it was.

But the best lesson He gave me through this came after the storm.

As I walked the dog I noticed something.

I couldn’t recall he last time the sky seemed so clear to me.  I could see stars that I knew must be there before, but ones that I hadn’t noticed or been able to see.

The storm that caused so much devastation on earth brought so much clarity in the heavens.

And that is really what I want… perhaps what we all want… to see heaven clearly. 

It will take some time to clean up the mess that the storm made (sounds like life again) down here.  But the promise of the storm is always what we get to see in the heavens.

It was true of the rainbow.

It is true of the stars.

God clears the skies for us… using whatever it takes… so that we can see Heaven more clearly.

If your life is in a storm phase… if it seems that the mess is too much to handle… take a minute to look up…

He is clearing the skies for you.

SDG