My best friend is a painter.

Ok. So are the elephants at the zoo. Who cares?
Well, unlike most people who paint on paper, my best friend paints the sky. Like, not pictures of the sky. He actually paints the sky. Changes the sky's colour, makes the clouds fluffy, sometimes even has these awesome light illusions that look like they're spilling from somewhere in the heavens.
Those elephants? Yeah, they can't do that. Don't believe me? I have evidence!

Beautiful huh? You can't really see it in the picture, but the clouds were really really pink. Like God had been eating fairy floss and dropped some. :)

Is you're best friend a painter?

Sometimes I forget.

I had a bit of a humbling experience this morning.
I realised that I'd forgotten to be thankful.
You know when you get in a rut, everything's wrong with the world, no-one could have it worse than you, blah blah blah - I was there this morning. (For a little while.) But then, something caught my eye, and I realised once again how much I have to be thankful for. How much I am blessed. And how easily I forget this. There are certain things unfolding in my life that I never imagined could happen, yet sometimes all I see is the black cloud floating over my head.
The one I put there myself.
So I challenge you today to look around and truly see how blessed you are. Not just the fact that you live in a house and have food to eat. But the things in your life that not everybody experiences - things that you, and just you, have been personally blessed with.
They're there, trust me. Sometimes we just forget.

Gracie