Sorry I missed last week. I just forgot, honestly.

Anyway, this week, I was all set to write about one particular song that is amazing. I had notes written in y little notebook thing I carry around and everything. However, I went to visit my friends Ginny and Eric today to play with a little baby, and I didn’t end up coming home until like, 6:45. As we were driving home on the Parkway, I happened to stop talking long enough to look out the window in silence for a moment. I was greeted with the most beautiful sunset sky I have ever seen before. It was just this perfect, post rain mixture of orange and pink and blue, and it took my breath away. What made it even better was the fact that it wasn’t over some glorious beach or some picturesque mountain. It was over the concrete road and metal signs of the Polk Parkway in Lakeland. Honesty, one of the last places I expected to see something so beautiful.

Upon seeing this, a song came to mind. It’s by this fantastic band called Less Than Jake, one of the bands responsible for my husband and I meeting, and I love them. The song is called “Is This Thing On?”. Listen to it if you get a chance. Here is the lyric:

Can we really measure if we’re any better

Than that skyline that goes on and on forever on and on

Here’s the thing. Sometimes, I feel very very small and unimportant. That’s a natural way to feel. In fact, in the grand scheme of things, we are very small. I was looking at that sky and thinking, ” Wow God, awesome job with that sunset today. Really top notch.” Then I realized that the same God that made that sunset also made me. And it left me breathless that somebody that took the time to create something so beautiful also took the time to create me. That sunset and I are the same. Every beautiful thing on this earth is the same as me and the same as you. We were made by the same creator. Many people probably saw that sunset tonight and thought it was awesome and thanked God, and it was only in the sky for a few minutes. I have been on the earth for 24 years, and probably will be for many more (let us hope). I hope somebody has looked at me, thought I was awesome, and thanked God for me (I mean besides my Mom and husband). Seeing this sunset, thinking of this song, made me so proud of my creator. So I just wanna take a moment to say, Bravo God. Bravo.

Has anything made you stop lately to give God a round of applause?