Miracles are everywhere: we need to open our eyes

Life is beautiful; living in this country, we are blessed more than most. Yet, we continue to bemoan our lot. Times can get "Ruff," and our "green" can get lean, but we still have a lot to be thankful for. Look for the silver lining, and you will find it; look for doom and gloom, and it will envelop your life.

For the past year or so, I have been an avid fan of the program 'Sunrise Earth'--it comes on HD at 7:30 in the morning. Watching the sunrise over different parts of the world, I cannot help but be awestruck by the beauty and richness of the planet around us. We can envy people living in mansions, dressing in fabulous clothes, and driving fancy cars and say why me Lord? Why couldn't you have given me all of that? But would we have had the time to enjoy the beauty of the sun rise, with all the accompaniment creativity of the Master; would we have the time to sit back and enjoy some deep personal time with ourselves, as the sun slowly fades away into the night? Probably not. Quit complaining about your lot; look around you; you are rich beyond your imagination; all you have to do is open your eyes.

DAYBREAK


The faint silvery color
washes the blackness of the night.
In time,
the dark background is slowly brushed away
as from a giant palette the Master dabs a few more colors
in effortless strokes,
across the canvas of the night,
heralding the dawn of a new masterpiece --
the day,
the other half of the circle.

In the roost,
the cock crows to the world at large,
flapping and fluttering its wings,
like an outdated Model T,
having its engine wound
into sputtering life.

The plump, well fed hen,
shakes itself from the eggs
she has been setting on,
all through the night.
From the dark brown shells,
the little yellow heads crack their way
into the pristine light.

Even and odd;
pairs, living, working;
the one feeding off the other.
In nature,
there are no opposites;
the many become the one;
the one makes up the whole.

Man,
wishing to be different,
pandering to the myth
of his place in the sun,
seeking to change the equation;
either all evens or all odds.
Never realizing,
even and odd; night and day;
each an important component
in the structure of the whole.

Riaz
Bowie, MD.

Write me, if you have been charged by nature. Peace out.