Morning Sunshine

Morning Sunshine, it's so wonderful to see and feel you today......

In the stillness of this Saturday morning, when all my house is asleep, I am up, watching the sun rise slowly in the morning sky. All pink and promising. What lays ahead today, what truths will be revealed? How will I add to this world with my presence today? Will I stumble again, or will I just continue to hold my head up and keep walking, only God knows. Questions of existence are only drowned out by the song of the morning birds, the rustling of a sleeping child's sheets, the distant barking of someone's dog, and in my neighborhood the crowing of some backyard rooster. Life all around, stretching, yawning, rising up to greet the day. I used to say that I was far from a morning person, more a mid afternoon kind of girl, but lately I find I really do enjoy being up before the world really gets going. Comfort found in these quiet moments are cherished and needed. The feeling of the air brisk upon my face as I let my own dogs out into the yard, is refreshing. The smell of coffee in the cup, waking my senses up. Up I am, up I hope to continue to be, thinking and looking at what I may bring to this world. Throughout the season's of my life I have adapted, the way one should in order to continue in this ever changing world. Change, that at times has been difficult and resisted, ultimately accepted and the challenge met. The saying it's always darkest before the dawn, speaks truth. Storms always seem less threatening when over and the healing of the battered world left in the storms wake, is started just by the breaking sun through the clouds at early dawn.Rays of light and hope, shine through. God's gift everyday is new day. What we choose to do with that day is the other gift God has given us. Right or wrong we go forward with our day, make mistakes, sometimes knowing full well that they are, and at other times, well not so much. I don't think really anyone purposely sets out to hurt others, at least I don't. It's just sometimes actions or words bring into view what some may not want to see. I make no apologizes for speaking my mind or being who I am, but if I unintentionally hurt someone, then I will own it and ask forgiveness, if warranted. Sometimes it's better to just let the truth hit them, and then one just walks away, if one can. A stormy night of angry thoughts that clutter the mind set to weaken the heart and soul, sometimes surrounds me. Thoughts of  resent, regret, rejection, are hard to handle at best. The night just makes them seem louder and threatening, like thunder and lightening, but when the light of day breaks through and the clouds separate, these thoughts disperse and become irrelevant. When you realize that it doesn't matter what one individual thinks of you compared to the majority that know you, it becomes just an opinion of one and nothing more. You become the morning sun, you shine much brighter when you put your heart and mind in a more positive place. True some mornings you are not greeted with God's suns love, but grey skies and rain, in those moments just remember, there is still greatness going on, change everywhere, growth in the world, and that the rain is needed to help bring to surface things that may need to be just washed away. Revel in the promise of tomorrow, and just like the morning sun will shine, so should you. Today I am sunshine, and a ray of hope fills me, and life is good...