Today was such an incredible day. Peter and I went for a ride on the Iron Horse. It was around 52 degrees, in the south were gorgeous dark bubbly clouds, in the north the heavens were sky blue, in the east was a double rainbow that landed right in the glistening salt water of the Kotzebue Sound. As the sun reflected off the seagulls, it made them look like florescent white doves. Everything was so breathtaking and the only camera was the lens of our eyes recording scenes that will be embedded in our hearts forever.
We are anxiously awaiting the coming days because each one is unknown and new. Not knowing what or where we will be next year has become part of the everyday routine. Just like someone who has to live with continuous backpain, we except the verity of life believing that it will work out to the benefit of our spirits in the end.
At times, I feel a pulling away of my flesh. Life picking and pulling my skin like a raven plucking the meat off my weary bones. This is not a bad thing.........I had developed quite a cushion of fat from the excesses of material living which caused me to be thick and opaque. A fickle human being with vain selfish thoughts intent on hiding my failures and weaknesses.
Do we sacrifice and suffer before coming to the realization that in reality we must allow the inner light of the Creator to shine through our flesh like a beacon to those around us? A beacon that will lead them back home. Back to the beginning..........the beginning and truth.
The beacon of our Creator can not shine through an opaque flesh made up of the fatness of materialism or the falseface of deceptions. A beacon can only shine through a clear transparent vessel.
There is still a long way to go before that raven can get to my white shiny bones. And will I have to let it get to the marrow in my bones? Will it take an extreme circumstance to rut out the materialism and selfishness' of my life? I pray not..............
Deep waters my friend, very deep waters.
Not drowning waters, just the deep waters of the life flowing over my soul, cleansing my spirit. Helping me to become free from the burdens of disappointments, broken promises, failures, and the many issues of life that beset us so easily. I am at a loss as to why I relinquish my peace so quickly to external forces which I have no control.
Just sharing. Nothing more, nothing less...............just sharing my walk with you. |
