If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. – James 1:5

Do you ever – suddenly and with no apparent explanation – see things more clearly?

This is something that happens quite often in my experience, and it is always a grace and a serendipity:

• Teaching a class and the right words come at just the right time, so that even the most skeptical listeners understand.
• The sudden awareness that life is good, that we’re going to be okay, that God is real, and that the world is beautiful, abundant, and affirming.
• Working at the computer, and just the right paragraph effortlessly lands in my mind, beautifully tying everything together.
• An impossible, double-breaking putt on the golf course where the line becomes so obvious and the hole appears the size of a basketball hoop.

Then this afternoon, walking Max, I breathed in and the fresh air just lifted me; I looked around and the light filled me with hope; I opened my heart and the neighborhood appeared so peaceful and beautiful; I walked up our street and our home was so inviting; I stepped in and our Christmas tree told just the right story.

Just a moment, or a series of them. Life can be so good – DEREK