My moment was this week when 2 people;one a 9 month old that had a serious surgery to remove a piece of skull since his prematurly fused together and the other a young lady who was in a car accident and had horrible injuries both came home doing excellent (still a long recovery ahead) but home earlier then expected and both on the same day!

A few months ago I wrote about a similar experience that I had with a sunset. It stunned me to the point that it actually changed the way I behave: I still look at the sky more and I’ve realized that the sky is routinely gorgeous - I just hadn’t generally noticed, because it took a particularly stunning sunset to get me in the habit of looking up!

http://scarlett-franklymydear.blogspot.com/2009/08/like-god-was-sitting-on-cloud.html

Viewing the perfect, intricate, geometrical, crystalline formation of snowflakes as they lay in layers on the leaves. 
Looking upon our sleeping baby as he lay peacefully in slumber between us in bed.

New Years Day on the way to mass, I saw the most beautiful full rainbow.

Yesterday as I was driving to be with my dad during his surgery there were hundreds of frost covered trees. When the sun hit them just right they sparkled! We have about 4 feet of snow on the ground and that was sparkling too! I’ve been complaining a lot about the amount of snow we’ve gotten but yesterday reminded me to be grateful for the beauty God has given us!

Yesterday walking through the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History with my 2-year-old and 4-year-old daughters.  We went specifically to see the “jewels” (the gem exhibit) after a morning appointment at Children’s Hospital.  God really created some beautiful rocks   The joy on the girls faces and the shrieks of “look at that beautiful one” were infectious!

I got a call Sunday afternoon that my 93 year old Grandmother had passed away.  Hospice has been helping the family for about 3 weeks now so it was expected.  But I had to take my 14 year old daughter to her basketball game at 5:15 and saw the most beautiful sunset.  I watched it in my rearview mirror as long as I could.  I felt this sense of peace.  Somehow I knew Grandma was happy and finally had the peace she longed for.  We had her funeral today.  Thanks for reminding me about the sunset!

I saw a rainbow about a 2 weeks ago as I was driving home from the mall. I was all by myself and the parkway I was driving on was desolate.  I followed it all the way home. It disappeared out of sight a few blocks before I got to my house.  It gave me that little boost I needed. When I got in the house I said to my husband, “I just followed a rainbow home, can you believe it?”  I don’t ever recall seeing a rainbow at this time of year before this experience.

Was up early one morning to spend some time with my Lord. As I went to the sink to prepare some coffee, I looked up thru the window and there in the inky black sky was a big bright full moon. I just stood there; it was beautiful. That was a great “Good morning” Lord. Thanks!