I'm Surrounded!!!

21 September 2012

Winds howl through late afternoon from the North.  A chill will bring frost soon.  The winds sound agitated right now, as if summer is wrestling fall for today's season.  Hard to tell who's winning when it's 64 degrees with a 40 mph gust making it feel like 48 degrees...and  I love it.

Even though I am agitated myself, in pain, short tempered at present and need to rest, I respect the power of the wind tossing around sturdy branches effortlessly as though they were feathers.  This invisible force changes seasons, tides, temperature and balance... and it has changed me.  When I first moved to North Dakota, it felt naked driving in having just left living in the East.  I grew up in Minnesota, so one wouldn't think ND would be much different.  

It's the openness that's changed me.  I love witnessing this morning's penetrating deep blue dotted with stars yield to the brilliant sun lighting up clouds with oranges, purples, and pinks...and now falling to the horizon back lighting clouds as if they were reflecting heaven itself.  The power of the elements that can kill you if you don't respect it.  
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Today I respect the forces that can kill or heal, sting or sooth, strand or rescue.   They reside simultaneously inside and outside our bodies.  Whether we respect them or not can lead to our healing or our death.  It amazes me how God has given us wisdom and how we often decline to us it.
I choose to be present and attentive because I'm surrounded!!!  WE are surrounded by the Spirit of Life.


P.S.  The poem below means a great deal to me and I wanted to share it with you.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdEmHgMYNMs  "If you're not from the Prairie" by D. Bouchard 

P.P.S.  If you've undergone this surgery, note...watch out for week three.  It's a bear.  Back to prescription meds periodically mid week three to four.  Respect the beginning of week four and life will be fuller each day.  Tiring being out in public and keeping energy up for the environment.  I realize it's hard to relax, but respect the healing process.  Even doing that is a type of devotion and discipline for type A's especially! :)