Life Has A Way…
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on November 2, 2009 at 1:45 PM in Current Affairs
Of letting you know when it is time to be still and just be. I say this not just from being a bit bleary eyed after staying up late to watch my beloved Yankees. No, I got up Sunday morning as always, thinking about what I was going to write today, then I walked outside. This is what I saw:
It just blew me away. So, I took my coffee, went and sat on the end of the dock, and looked out at this beautiful view. The wind was blowing in from the marsh, ruffling my hair, and rustling the trees behind me. There was nothing to be done for it but to close my eyes and let the breeze wash over me, smelling that beautiful combination of ocean and marshland. Acorns would drop from the live oak tree overhanging the dock, where they would hit the dock, then bounce into the marsh. Fish jumped up into the air, their silvery bodies catching the rising sunlight, then, *PLOP* back into the water they would go. Birds are singing all around me, and squirrels are chattering away. The snowy white egrets were flying overhead, and off in the distance, I could hear the great blue herons. Unbelievably beautiful, majestic birds they are, but possessors of a grating call – I guess that was the universe’s way of keeping things balanced.
As I looked over the marshland, the grasses taking on their Fall golden hue, I noticed a couple of blades of marsh grass standing tall and straight, along with the ripples in the water from the wind:
How cute are they stretching up to meet the sun? They looked like they were reaching up to catch the first glimpse.
And then, I turned to go back into the home, the air a little cool at 65 degrees (hey – that’s cold for us), and looked up at the house my partner and I long dreamed about building, a dream that beacme reality 3 12 years ago. This is my home, looking back from the dock:
Waiting inside was my espresso machine, ready for me to make another cappuccino to have while looking out at this beautiful view. On this day, thanking the universe for this beautiful marshland, and the place I call home, was what Life had in mind for me. I was all too willing to oblige…
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