Fiery Darts & Still Waters

I'm a day late posting...hopefully not a dollar short.  Our family is going through a crisis...plain and simple.  Those times come to us all.  Like smoke from the fires in summer

The smoke can sting the eyes and cloud the vision.  There's bright spots of peace to be found but you must be willing to look for it

Smoke lets you know there's fire

But it doesn't have bring only misery

Right now in our difficulty the bright point of God's mercy and comfort warm me.  The kids...oh how thankful I am for them.  My son returned from driver's ed.  and saw a large bull frog in the middle of the road.  we brought him home to show Gabby

Biggest I've seen around here.  We took one more picture before releasing him in the pond

Little simple flowers caught my eye and somehow brightened my personal darkness

Even thistles have their beauty

Subtle purples

This is simple pleasure but it fuels peace.  Like a flicker of faith in desperate need the morning sun kissed this flower

May our light so shine.