My drive home tonight was a bit more challenging than usual. My vision is quite limited at night anyway, which requires extra caution. After a day of much rain, however, thick fog developed so my journey home took a little longer. Yet it wasn't a time for fear or confusion. It was a time for gratitude for recognizing the familiar in the middle of unfamiliar conditions.
I began thinking. Isn't life like that? Just when the journey seems familiar enough that we feel comfortable, something happens that seems to cloud our perspective, create more challenges and cause unexpected confusion. Perhaps it involves major life changes, illness, disappointments or loss. What we thought we knew becomes much different.
I am grateful that the One Who holds me on clear, sunny days is also the One Who holds me on dark, foggy nights. I am thankful that His Presence surrounds me in peaceful times as well as stormy times. He is familiar, consistent, all-knowing and ever-present even when my journey becomes very unfamiliar. His love is with me. Always. Each step. Every time. I am amazed. I am grateful. I am never alone.<3~thl
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