Freeze-Frame Cactuses

What's up, Wednesday? I know, I know..it's late. I promise I had intentions of posting early, but it has been such a hectic, stressful day that the blog post kept getting pushed further down on the things-to-do list.

It's been a rough week, but it's over. I'm welcoming Easter break with OPEN arms this year. I had to drive through "hail" to get home. Like literal hail. I couldn't see the road for a good twenty-thirty minutes.

Which is shocking, considering the whole way home, up until the very last few minutes, it was gorgeous, sunny, and hot. The sky was blue, the road glowing gold in the bright sun, and the clouds floating through the sky like perfect masterpieces. And to top it off, when I first started driving, there was a tiny, yellow crop-duster soaring in the distance.

As I came up on this little plane, I saw it swooping way down low across the road, almost touching and then swerving back up as soon as cars got close. Then, after flying a distance, it would swivel around and repeat the process, tearing through the blue sky.

And as I was staring at it, I wanted to be up there, soaring through the clouds, rather than being stuck down here. The whole ride home, I couldn't stop thinking about that crop duster, and how I wanted to be in that plane. Doing loop-the-loops through the air, spinning upside-down, swooping over the roadway and zooming away with barely a second to spare. Free. Forgetting all my troubles and forgetting everything tying me down.

But when I got home, and saw my sister, I completely forgot about that crop-duster (until now I suppose), because I haven't stopped smiling since I got here.

I know this is a short post, but it's got pretty much one purpose:
To say that, no matter how hard it gets, and how much I think I want to be zooming away, I can remember this moment....and not give up. Stick it out, through the end. Because that is what I am made to do.

And to remember, that, despite the stress of school, and despite different worries, GOD is so much bigger. If you get a moment, look up Psalm 46, and just think about that for a minute. A friend sent it to me, and it really made me think.

It's amazing.

So have a wonderful evening, freeze-frame cacti.