Fireflies

Sometimes it's hard to see in the dark.
Images that are familiar in the light take on different forms when left to our imaginations.
And other times, you can't see your hand in front of your face.
Life can be that way.
Tragedy strikes out of the blue.  No warning.  Your plans and dreams have suddenly been ripped away.  Pain, heartache, loss.  Your familiar surroundings are now distorted.  You no longer see the light.
Everything is dark.
It seems like that, doesn't it?  It's what the devil would want you to believe.
The circumstance you find yourself in hasn't allowed your eyes to adjust to the darkness....
yet.
You are still in the phase of asking, 'Why God?'
I remember one time while camping, I was in the middle of a field.  Complete darkness.  When I walked into this field, it was so dark I could barely see my hand in front of my face.  I was alone.  Or so I thought.  But as my eyes began to adjust to the dark, I began to see them.
Fireflies!  Hundreds of them!  
God reminded me that sometimes, His beauty is most evident in the dark.
Isaiah 61:3 says:  To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
That verse is the answer to our 'why.'  So that God may be glorified.  In.  All.  Things.
You may not think you see God in the dark, but He is there.
Og Mandino once said, "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."
The next time I find myself in a dark place,  I'm going to look for the fireflies!
But that's just me!