Sunrise… It happens everywhere.
Category: Unexpected Delight
Solstice, Dancing, Hope
Sun, Earth solstice bound
Daily darker, woe, and woe
Wait! Tomorrow’s hope
Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars
All the rest, twirling, whirling
Sphere music, dancing
Cosmos - all of it
Creator loved, Son redeemed
Heaven, nature sing!
Today's hope and gift
Sunrise
I remember back then
when walking along the swamp path
I remember seeing lavender, pink and orange
Hugging the horizon
A rich palette of color
Leaking through skeletal trees
Announcing the arrival of the sun
To light the day.
I remember walking not so long ago
Same path, same sky, same everything
Yet a gray shroud laid across the sky holding back
A flood of color trying in vain to influence the day
Amidst steel wool clouds rolling out an even darker gray
All making me wonder, why bother
If there is no sunrise
To light the day
Then I remembered something
As I walked along the swamp path
I remembered some wisdom from a friend who said
Even though the kaleidoscope of morning beauty
Is hidden and all seems lost, grim, hopeless
Unseen on the other side of the gray
There’s always a sunrise
To light the day
Sunrise, today’s gift
This Morning’s Walk and the Music of the Spheres
For some reason today’s walk seemed to take longer. Even though I walked the same path and distance at the same early morning time, it seemed longer. Maybe different sounds, different sights?
Today, when I started down the path the dark sky whispered, “Look at me!” There they were, a sliver of a waning crescent moon (only hours away from becoming new) hanging below bright Venus in the eastern sky. Both of them shone brightly before the not-quite-here-yet sunrise. Then when I turned to the southwest there was Orion, big and bright. The stellar views stopped me and made me wish I had my good camera and not just my phone.
Maybe you saw all this, too. Maybe you caught some of this beautiful display from your driveway as you got ready to head out for the day.
Perhaps you had the window seat on that early southbound flight I spied overhead. Maybe from there you peeked out and caught an up-close glimpse of the shining crescent.
Maybe you wondered as you looked out the kitchen window, nursing the first cup of coffee, “What is that bright star in the east?”
Or maybe the clouds got in the way.
The amazing thing is, no matter if there are clouds or the objects fade ahead of the rising Sun, they still remain in their appointed places doing what they are created to do, singing the Creator’s praise.
Sometimes I sing along, joining “the music of the spheres.”
And sometimes, on cloudy days, I try to remember mornings like this. I try to remember that “this is my Father’s world.”
Today’s gift.
Walking… in the Rain
Walking…
… in the rain
Today’s gift
Simple
Simple…
A – B – C
It’s yellow and black
Zipping forward… Buzzing…
Finding flowers
Mining them for nectar
Picking up pollen
Flitting backward… Zzubing…
It’s black and yellow
A Bee! See?
Simple…
I Shoulda Been Mowing
It took a bit longer to mow the backyard this afternoon. I got distracted by these beauties.
Unexpected delight
Today’s gift
Every Square Inch (iiii) – The Rest
*I was weeding the flowerbeds the other day. I took along my camera. Here are more ‘square inches’ of God’s creation that I found.
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No poetry
No preaching
Just the rest of the pictures
From my weeding adventure
Every Square Inch (ii) – Necessities
*I was out weeding the flowers the other day. I took along my camera. Here are some ‘square inches’ of God’s creation that I found.
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Food (i)
We see leafy, green
We wonder what’s within
We have food for thought
Food (ii)
Carbon dioxide
Water, chlorophyll, sunlight
Photosynthesis
Food (iii)
Table of Plenty
Photosynthesis provides
Food for all
Take a Breath
Green, leafy gateway
C - Oh - two IN, Oh - two OUT
Needed breath of life
Water
Suspended, sparkling
Jewels dancing, delighting
Watering the earth
Today’s gifts
Today’s Riddle
What is black, white and red and found in the cosmos?
Hmmm? Tough question.
There are lots of red, white and black things.
The Cosmos is huge.
Hint?
It flies.
Lots of things fly.
Not much help is it?
Okay. How about this?
It flutters when it flies.
Ah, that narrows it down…
To about a million fluttery things.
Did I mention that it’s black, white and red?
Do you mean like black and white and read all over?
Nope.
Different riddle.
Try this
Think cosmos
Okay
Space, planets, celestial spheres, galaxies
Orion, the dippers, comets, the moon…
Not that Cosmos
These cosmos
Ah, now we’re getting somewhere!
Thinking…
Black, white, red
Flutters as it flies
In the cosmos,
Not to be confused with THE Cosmos
Last hint
Think naval
No! Not that one
I got it!
Naval as in nautical, not bellybutton
White, red and black
Flutter flying
Among the cosmos and and also within THE Cosmos
A Red Admiral butterfly
Unexpected delight
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Today’s gift.
Walk as Children of Light 