A gift in the storm

Arrows flying everywhere.
Did not know I could experience so many things in one short period of time that would make me cry out in pain. But it is the stuff of life in this world. Pain comes with the package. And so we endure or we fight, or we pay back or we struggle to forgive or we hide and cry and don't come out again for a long time.
Those options are not all the same and so many times we are doing all of the above in the same storm.
Such has been my choice of late..
But one day a brother humbly offered words of apology and grace that came like a beam of light into my world.. a lighthouse appeared and God used those humble words of one who had offended me to bring me the truth again. "Yes you are valuable on this planet" and not just to God.
You never know how your humble words will impact someone in trouble. You never know what little tiny piece of God inside you will touch another life in a profound way. Stay close to Him and you will change the world around you one life at a time...whether you are the lighthouse or the tossing ship in the storm...God makes it count!