God spoke to me today

I did something stupid the other day at work. not lose your job stupid, but it could have been. I thought I was right at the time and had felt disrespected. I later felt a tiny voice telling me to stop holding a grudge and go apologize for not being obedient. I didn't want to. I wanted to keep thinking I had been right. I swallowed my pride and apologized and was so glad I did. It felt good to lower myself and admit wrong. I left work with a smile on my face and as I turned onto 1st St. God spoke to me. I looked up in the sky and saw the most beautiful sunset, yellow, pink, purple beauty. Of course words don't do justice, but it was breath taking. God then said, "this is what your humility looks like to me." When I am able to lower myself and do the right thing, not the thing that is expedient or that coddles my fragile image, that is magnificently beautiful to God.
A few moments later the sunset was gone. The arrangement of the clouds and sun creates the beautiful sunset but it is soon gone as time moves on it fades away, as does the memory of that lone moment of beauty in my actions. Tomorrow I will have to have the courage to listen to God's tiny voice in my head again and willingly lower myself again. The sunset may not be there, but if I obey the beauty will be.