I was feeling a
little down because of the Stay At Home policy from the state, but that did not
prevent me from taking a walk today. Being out in the country there are not
many people I would come in contact with.
As I walked, I could
only see the long empty road ahead of me as I turned around to head back the
mile and a half to my home. No people, no cars, I do not even think I see or
heard a bird. Even the wind was still and the silence deafening.
I started to talk with
God and ask, maybe more like shouting.
“WHERE ARE YOU IN ALL OF THIS?”
And then inside
of me a voice said quietly,
“Look up child, I’m here!”
I took my eyes off
the ground and started to look up. I looked at the sky and seen beautiful
clouds and sunlight. I seen new growth on the high branches of the trees, and
birds flying in the air, carefree to what was going on below. Everywhere I looked
I seen something different, new life coming from what seemed to be dead and forsaken.
And then a funny
thing happened, as I looked down again, I seen things differently. Beyond the
dead plants and leaves new growth appeared. Dormant plants were starting to
come to life. Flowers were starting to bud out and new stocks were breaking
through the brown earth. Sounds of birds chirping and geese honking, frogs
singing near the ponds filled the air.
Sounds of life
abounded, cars came down the road with people waving as they went by. A neighbor
was out cutting grass and the sound of children playing in a yard could be heard.
And that voice said to me,
“See I am near, you just have to look up child.”
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