There are special glasses that allow those who have color blindness to see in full color. I have watched touching videos of people beholding for the first time the entire rainbow of the world around them. How poignant is the moment when a beautiful truth is revealed, showing that which had been missed all along. How awesome is my God who blesses me with these moments day after day.
I think most people have had times when living felt drab and dreary. During my third pregnancy I was stricken with a strange depression. I wasn’t able to experience things as they normally were. It seemed as if there was a thick layer of dullness between me and the outside world that I just couldn’t penetrate. I remember watching my sister and our children laughing and playing in a pool and feeling like I was completely removed from that vibrant existence.
I could liken that to my experience before I began walking with God. I didn’t see life the way that I, a child of God, should see it. Albert Einstein once said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Without God or with God? In gray shadows and shades or in His rich, colorful spectrum? I choose God’s palette.
Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. James 1:17.
Meeting God at the Park 