Just wanted to share a bite sized snack with you today, if you will.
I tend to get lots of emails daily from inspirational sites in an effort to keep myself plugged.
Just read this and wanted to share:
it's from gotandem.com
enjoy!
<3
Arlene
Wide-EyedRelate to Others: Relationships track |
| You wake each day, to the same room, the same family, the same friends. Do you ever think: Our planet is spinning at 800 miles an hour as it revolves around the sun at 64,000 miles an hour while the sun swings through the galaxy at 500,000 miles an hour? And yet you are still? Do you ever forget all of your assumptions? Of course you were born, of course your body is the way it is, of course she loves me, how could it be any different? Do you ever pause, while stuck in traffic, to consider the great machine you pilot? Do you ever pause, mid-layover complaint, and think that you just flew, in the air, mimicking birds? And that not so long ago, that LAX to Dallas leg you just did in four hours cost people their lives to attempt? Fantasize. You are a tiny, breathing thing and this place stretches all around you. Fantasize your awakening in this body, stretching your fingers in wonder. Instead of pondering the grave misunderstandings of your relationships, consider that we can speak at all, that we can open our mouths and expel air over our tongues and create sounds that carry our ideas, our thoughts into another person's mind! That the symbols you read right now were written far away on a yellow legal pad, transcribed to the internet (I really don't get the internet) and delivered to you. Isn't our animation wonderful and strange? Oh dust, our glorious form, our fired clay! Thank you, Lord, for the sun's long reach, for the salty air of the harbor, for the gulls, the patience of oaks and their slow stretching, for deep storm fronts rolling in! “Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it” (Psalm 139:14). Silas |