Draw yourself a picture

Life is hard. Life is really really hard. And people are flawed. Every single person on this earth is flawed.
You know when you're little and you draw pictures of the ground and the sky and there's usually a tree with a nice oval hole in the middle for an owl. I've never actually seen this hole in a tree or an owl in a tree for that matter...but anyways, it was always in the picture. And there were birds. They were shaped like a bunch of small smushed letter Ms. There was definetly always a baloon as well. It was usually a girl (with red hair) holding a a balloon standing next to a tree with a hole in it.
Unfortunately the reality of life is that the birds will always shit on you, owls only come out at night and balloons go POP. Loudly.
I find looking back on my perfect sunshine world that it was great. It really was. It did lack one thing though. Meaning...truth.
I think i've found out that God reveals truth through hardship. He reveals Love through Pain...and he never looks as beautiful as when your picture perfect world is shredded to pieces.
The weather recently has been incredible. It is probably my motivation for blogging today. The actual sun shining on the hardest time of my life to date has given me some insight into how the most important SOn has never let me go. Life sucks, people suck. But mayber its just the way I am looking at it. Because when i begin to look at it with eyes opened wide by the Grace of my God I can see pretty clearly that the life that suckks is only for a little while.
SOmthing far greater is fully within grasp and it is coming! I bet in heaven the birds will look like little Ms and balloons will never pop. It will be great.