Dove in the Clouds

I wanted to share this picture I took after I was leaving Eucharistic Adoration a few weeks ago.  I was in the chapel praying so hard about Peyton and our infertility problems, I also had said the Rosary, and when I walked outside and looked up this is what I saw:

The Dove represents peace and it's also the form the Holy Spirit took on a lot.  I think it was a sign for me to come to peace with all these things going on, and to know Peyton is okay.  I am always praying for signs and looking up at the stars at night for a shooting star.  But when I least expected a sign, I saw this amazing perfect Dove in the sky.  There was no other clouds hardly!  I knew this was a sign for me from God, or at least I felt that it was.   

We were in church last night and it was one of those Homilies that you felt the priest was talking directly to you and your situation, and he said we never know why we have to suffer, but God will always bring something great out of it, whether the suffering is the loss of a child, cancer, or whatever it may be.  He also told us a story about a little girl wanting a piece of cake and the mom kept offering her oil and raw eggs and flour and all these odd things, but when the little girl said, "Why are you offering me all these things and not letting me eat some cake?", the mom said, "All these ingredients make a cake, but you have to have them in order to get the chance to eat a delicious piece of cake." 

I know it sounds like a strange thing to hit home with, but for some reason it did.  It made since.  I have to go through the labor of making the cake before I can enjoy it.  I can't help to wonder how many ingredients I have left...... LOL