Daily Reminder # 51

Life is incredible.

What an awesome universe we live in. Butterflies - which seem so fragile and ephemeral actually migrate thousands of miles each year. They start out as fuzzy worms and quietly transform into these amazing fluttery beings. It's pretty incredible. Life is pretty darned awesome. I think I'll leave it at that tonight and add a poem.

Cry against the dark night of shining tears

Whose source you do not know

Joy and sorrow

Blending in rivers of no source, no end

The restless stillness of life's passing

Cry against the dark night of dreamless sleep

And sleepless dreams

All levels blending into something else

Can rainbow colors see themselves or

know their hues?

Where is the light I seek (too bright to bear)

The light whose music sings a soul to joy

Unlocks some caged and cowering power within

The light that is my soul and more

The light toward which I am perpetually turning,

Turning,

And turning too away

My blindness frightened at the prospect of

such vision

Cry against the dark pain of all this loneliness

Our frail forms groping forth and falling back

Almost, but not quite, touching on the hand of God

Almost, but not quite, hearing the voice within

Cry for the unanswered prayers

The ones we do not know we make

Which the Universe, therefore, cannot answer

Cry for what we think we seek

Mistaking our own shadows for the face of God

Cry for the dark night of shining tears

For that imperfect strife which is mortality

Cry for the vision that remains unseen and out of reach

Within us.

Katherine E. Rabenau

Some things I'm grateful for today:

• water
• my mattress
• naps
• popcorn
• netflix
• butterflies and bunnies

Have a Wonderful Day!