Potato Pizza and Fireflies

On a warm June afternoon the power went out. I called the electric company to report the outage; then I sat and sweltered and wondered about supper.

What bright spots did we glimpse that day during the power outage, and a subsequent one that night? Two take-out pizzas—one potato, the other sliced sausage. (We thought using the oven would be out of the question until five—the time the electric company supposed the issue would be resolved.) And that second outage? The darkness that night created a contrasting canvas for fireflies.

God has many ways of brightening our dark days.