The Hand of God

Isn't this an amazing picture? It's called the Hand of God (for obvious reasons) and it has brought a whole new level of thoughts to me lately. Today didn't start off on a good note for us around the Spooner household. My children have been kind of ill with colds or a touch of the flu or something and today they decided they wanted to be up at 6:30, much to my dismay. So I've been up for hours and hours and I will admit that I was rather cranky about the fact that I haven't been sleeping well. The last few weeks have resulted in a severe lack of sleep. Not because of any outside force, but because of nightmares and insomnia because of my overactive imagination. Now these nightmares weren't anything rational, but they did cause me to stir into wakefulness several times at night, resulting in a restless sleep. But today I was so hoping to get a bit more rest and obviously that didn't pan out. But as I've gone throughout this day I've tried to remember how much I am thankful for and for the blessings that have been soon readily poured out upon my family. And I've found that as I focus more on that, my mood is significantly improved...even after Liam took his diaper off and smeared unpleasant things over his bed.

And as I was on a friend's blog, a watched a youtube video about our lives and how we can be better. One thought that struck me was when it was stated that the Lord knows that we aren't perfect. My heart lurched at that and I felt so loved! And so humbled and blessed at the same time. The hand of God has been so vividly shown in my life that I would be foolish not to acknowledge it.