An entry from my memoir, "Waltzing with His Walker" is below, written in December 2010, accompanied by photos of that astounding and magnificent morning. Blessings!
Solstice Revisited
January 14, 2011
Have you noticed that the days are a
little longer and that the sun is going down a bit later each day? It feels
good to know that we are on the other side of the shortest day of the year, and
that warmer days and more light are on the way. The solstice was a really
special time this year as a full moon, a total lunar eclipse, and the winter
solstice all took place within one day.
I managed to get up early on Tuesday,
Solstice morning, and decided to go for a walk just as it was beginning to get
light outside. As the sky was a lovely pink and showed promise of a sweet
sunrise, I ran back inside and got my camera. GOOD call! From the minute I got back outside, I took
pictures all the way along my walk. It was so beautiful! Every part of the sky
was colored, from purples and pinks to gold and tangerine, in all directions
and in all shades imaginable. I couldn't believe how much everything kept
changing, and every second seemed more beautiful than the one before. During
the following week, the sunrise came up in conversation a lot. A number of
people had seen it and were just as awed by it as I was. I asked my neighbor,
who is a very early riser, if a lot of mornings were like that, and if I've
been missing them all Fall. "Nope. That was a really special one. They
don't get much better than that!"
It was good news to hear, mostly
because it let me see that once again I was in the right place at the right
time. That of all the mornings I chose to go out early, I was out for a huge
visual gift. I got to feel that--for all the ways I think that I'm floating
around in life with no vision or focus, drifting with no definition or design--I
might actually be in the absolute right and perfect place at the right time.
I've started to relax a little, surrender a little more to being where I am,
like it or not. I trust that not only will everything turn out okay, but that
it's okay now; even better than okay! Amen.
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