I found this beautiful patriotic quilted heart hanging in the laundry room of the Brackenridge Campground Park in Edna, Texas on July 5th while I was doing my laundry. My family and I have been camping at this park for over 20 years now and always stay an entire week during July 4th. For the past 10 months leading up to this vacation, my husband of 20+ years has gone through some physical and mental health issues that we could not have ever imagined our family going through. It has been the hardest struggle that our family has faced. Watching someone you’ve always known as one way for years all of the sudden become the shell of the person he has become brings an unimaginable amount of pain and grief. But through this pain and grief we have become closer as a family and much closer to God. Everyday on this vacation at 8:15 pm, I would ride my bike to the pavilion there at the park and watch the white cow birds fly to this little island out on the lake for the night and watch the unbelievably gorgeous sunset and I would talk to God. I would pray for healing and peace for my family. It was my little prayer / meditation moment for the day. I constantly ask God for signs that healing and peace are on the way. And he always answers me. On the way back from my prayer for that day, I stopped to change out my laundry and low and behold, there is my “sign” hanging on a little hook in the laundry room. This brought me so much peace and joy that day. I keep it hanging in my room as my reminder that peace and healing are coming and that Light always overcomes darkness. My husband is getting better, but it is such an unbelievably slow process and with each medication change brings another set-back and a long road to get back to stabilize. But we believe that God is changing our family for a reason. We refuse to waste this pain and will use it for a purpose. Thank you to whoever the angel was that made that heart for me that day. I truly believe I was meant to find it. Keep spreading joy and peace to that little corner of the world. I know there are lots of other folks out there that need peace and joy in their lives right now.
God Bless. 🙂
Crystal