the rock candy's melted, only diamonds now remain...

there are somethings you learn to appreciate more when you can no longer have them. there are things that you learn to appreciate more when other things in your life are gone. this is what God likes to call teaching gratitude.

my closet has two doors that meet in the center that are on little spring-track sliders and hinge-like things in the corners (notice my use of technical terms). yesterday my left closet door mysteriously fell off the track when i opened it. after about 40 minutes of what i thought was fixing it and having it pop back off the track again every time i tried to make it function, i just kind of propped it up against the right door to make it appear as though it were closed. the problem with this is, every time i have to open the closet to get anything out, the door falls down again and i am stuck maneuvering it back in to it's propped up position. needless to say, i have never been more grateful for my right closet door. it still (for the time being) operates properly and serves as part of my temporary solution as it allows for me to perform my lovely propping routine in order to convince myself that my closet is indeed closed. in this moment in my life, i am in love with my right closet door, and terribly lost without my left.



anyway, it is a minimal example, but God works in mysterious ways sometimes. it is helping me to see the "big picture" with a bit more clarity.

i leave you with this thought:

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."- Buddha