A Giant Parenthesis

Some times in my life are like a giant parenthesis full of God's grandeur...and this is one of them...and I am grateful.

A friend of mine posted the above note on her Facebook page this week. I haven’t had a chance to ask her what the parentheses consist of particularly, but there is so much I can imagine filling my own parenthesis.

For example,

when I took a walk

not long ago

and saw the branches of this tree

raw against the edge of a winter-spring sky.

It seemed I could see every

bit of bark 

outlined—stark and beautiful.

THAT was a moment when the giant parenthesis was full of God’s grandeur.

And today, coming home to Jamie having returned from Laramie—a completely normal thing, but amazing! A parenthesis. And I am grateful for such things. Especially in the midst of life’s great fullness.

A parenthesis: not the main point of a sentence, but an addition that makes all the difference.

Some times in my life are like a giant parenthesis full of God's grandeur...and this is one of them...and I am grateful.

What parenthesis fills your sentence today with more than you thought it might hold? What adds to your life?

Thanks be to God!