I love color. I love beauty and creation. I love my vision and sight and the possibility and imagination that the gift our sight opens up for us. I think of all senses, for me, sight would be the most difficult to lose. When my eyes are open, so is my heart.
I remember being 14 and sitting in art class and learning about all of the shades and hues of the color spectrum and feeling then that it was (in my opinion at least:) the most perfect metaphor for the vastness of our own emotions and experiences throughout life. We are every color and we experience every color...our days can be filled with vividness and vibrancy or sorrow and despair can bleach them numerous shades of grey and black. Hope can be splashed across the sky in the pale shining colors of a rainbow or bloom orange and red in your garden. The prairie sky after a thunderstorm can be touched with the lightness of new possibilities, the pleasure of pureness and weightlessness. The northern lights and the sunset and rise and their intense beauty are very often things that stir such incredible depth of feeling and longing in us that I believe most people don't dare look very long for fear of self discovery.
I delight in color. I delight in peace. This morning I took my coffee outside and sat on the front deck my husband built and was surrounded by the insane, joyful chatter and song of the birds which always makes me wish my own spirit could sing with such freedom. Everywhere I looked, nature showed herself in her colorful beauty. I watched the cats play in the long grass, (alright fine, our weed garden...:), and felt the breeze on my skin and knew how much I miss of life. Not even intentionally. In the busy superficiality of life it's easy to avoid noticing that we miss anything at all, it's very easy to allow meaningless to creep into our souls, easier still to become apathetic.
I love nature. It is where I feel my deepest, most wordless communication with my Creator. Nature speaks to my soul in a way nothing else does. Its voice is the voice of God.
5 comments:
AMEN!
Colleen I totally agree with you! What a beautiful way to put it.
Just yesterday I was sitting on the sandy beach here in Kyparissia listening to the waves roll in and feeling the breeze on my face, thinking the exact same thing. How much of life do we miss because we don't take the time to experience it? How many times do we down a cold glass of water in a hurry instead of closing our eyes and feeling the coolness refresh us? How many times do we drive passed a forest, barely noticing it, instead of taking the time, even 10 min, to walk through it and breath in the fresh air that trees give us? We live life at million miles an hour when we were created to take time and enjoy it.
Colleen, when I was reading your post, my heart sang out to yours. You are such a rich person, never loose that richness. Never loose that passion that you have for life and God's creation. God is beauty and so is His creation let us take the time and enjoy it!
Oh, man! My heart almost jumped out of my body when I saw you had a new update on your blog. With the news of a tildeling to Denmark yesterday, I thought perhaps you had something similar to share. ;-)
Sesselja, I wish we did!!:) I saw that on your blog and think it's great news!! I sometimes feel like I can't wait anymore to get the tideling, but at the same time I just don't want to hope SO much when it still could be awhile until we hear anything!!:) Have a lovely weekend! Hope you're as lucky with the weather in Oslo as we are here in the south!:)
Janet, thank you so much for both your comment and the compliment. I know we see eye to eye, heart to heart on so many things and I value that so much. I don't think that I've ever met anyone quite like you, you DO actually live life to the absolute fullest rather than just talking about it!! I just love to be around you because your enthusiasm, honesty, and love of life are so infectuous!!:) Miss you, Girl!! Is Kyparissia the beach outside your house by the way? Sounds so beautiful...
Miss you!
I know we definitely connect at the heart level :o)
Kyparissia is the beach we were at for Operation Joshua. It was absolutely amazing!
I have to run sorry if this sounds choppy... it is! :op
Love you!
:) No problem Janet! You can leave me all the choppy comments you like...love ya!
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