Heat

How can there be a God who loves us when sometimes our pain is more than we can take? How can he let us suffer if he really loves us so?

Well, I was thinking and have you ever lived in a Texas summer? Where each day the heat grows to an unbearable 105 degrees? What an amazing relief the day of 88 degrees is! How sweet the day smells when the rain has finally come. How cherished the soft breeze and the moments of peace in the wind.

Would we really learn to appreciate this beautiful day if we never knew different or would we complain about the heat of an 88 degree day? Would we spend all day indoors unaware of the beauty because of our ignorance? With our inability to know what beauty truly surrounds us?

God lets us endure our heartaches and our heartbreaks because we learn. We cherish. We see the world anew with a grateful heart. When we know where we came from, we learn to trust him. We learn to love him and when the tough times come back we know there will be a rainbow. We know we will see the light. We know we will make it to a happiness we would never know if we had not grown into the maturity to even notice it.