Most of the time I find my heart leaning and longing toward something other than the moment in which I stand.  I struggle to live “content in all things” while all around me are unmet needs and unfinished business.

Yet every once in a while I find myself in a moment of extraordinary peace.

Have you ever seen the sun break through the clouds in a single ray of light?

That’s how these rare and fleeting moments feel to me.

Right in the midst of what feels gray, obscure and even cloudy, a moment breaks upon my heart and I experience the most extraordinary peace.

I wrote this little poem in the midst of one of those moments.  I knew it was temporary and I so wanted to capture it.

I hope you experience your own moment of breaking light and that you have the where-with-all to just pause and bask in His presence.

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