Dear Lord,
When I think of you my heart sings in delight as I know all creation is from you, it is of you. The sunrise is you. The sunset is you. The ocean is you. The surrendering sweetly into love is you. Thank you.
Inhale the New Day
After awaking, I stepped onto my back porch, I inhaled the freshness of life, the new day, the cardinal’s song, the gentle breeze and I knew I arrived. My heart open. The cobwebs from yesterday cleared. The welcoming of a new day is my gift for today. Can life be this joyous – finding my gift as a new day, a breath, the song of birds and the delicate white and pink morning glories awaking to me? Ah, yes!
How do you greet each day? Do you realize each day as a gift? How will you look at any moment today a bit differently than you did yesterday? How will you inhale the freshness of life today?
Bask in Creation
“My heart fluttered, I grabbed my camera and ran outside. When I saw the sun with my own eyes I leapt for joy and galloped across the lawn to the boulders. The sunrise was marvelous bringing with it urgings of song and dance – but what to sing and what to dance. So I allowed myself to step back and bask in the glory of a singing ocean and dancing gulls. God is brilliant. Creation astounding.” – Lisa Zuercher, 4 October 2015 from Reflections on My Day, Silent Retreat, Cohasset, MA.