DAILY GRATITUDE NATIVE NATIONS AND NATURE

 

I am grateful for Native Nations taught us about nature…

How nature opens up our hearts…our souls…our eyes…

How when we are one with nature

we see only one one life

one world

one sky

SEEING BEAUTY EVERYWHERE

 

I wish we all were blessed to spend more time in nature…

perhaps it’s the best way to make a country great…

for I believe if we spent more time in nature…

we’d have less time to hate.

Because the more time spent enjoying what’s on this Earth

and all the things above it… 

It is inevitable…nature will seduce you

and you will learn to love it.

And when you begin to love nature…

you’re more accepting…more inclined to share

and your eyes and heart will open up

until you see beauty everywhere.

DO THEY ENJOY THE SUNRISE

 

We like to take our walks early…at least we always try…

so we can be there when the sun begins to paint the morning sky.

It’s a beautiful time of day…if we’re lucky there’s a morning breeze

and as the sun begins shed her light…we say good morning to the trees.

And to the birds who sing their morning song to welcome in the day

to the flowers with their early blooms…to the rabbits who nod then silently hop away.

When we get to the water’s edge…to the pelicans we wave hi

and if we’re lucky we will greet the dolphins as they go floating by.

The other morning as we watched the sun paint the sky 

in yellow, oranges, purples and pinks.

changing the colors of the clouds as fast as we could blink…

I got to wondering if the birds who fly much closer to the colors painted in the sky 

ever stop to enjoy the sunrise as much as Deborah and I.

I wondered if trees we pass each have eyes

and if so do they enjoy all the colors painted on the sky?

Do the dolphins notice the sunrise….recognize how beautiful the sky can be

when they come up to catch their breath…as the float under the sea.

Does the ocean enjoy the sunrise…does it ever think…how sweet

that all those painted colors begin where the sky and my waters meet?

And finally as the sun is busy painting the morning sky…does it stop…once in a while…

to check it’s reflection mirrored on the ocean……and give itself a smile.

Of course until we can converse with nature…we may never know

If they enjoy the sunrise…the wind, the rain, the snow…

But I believe in miracles…I’ve witnessed one or two…

and until nature tells me different…I like to think they do.

DAILY GRATITUDE LOVE

 

 I am grateful that even though I only speak one language

meaning my multilingualism is weak….

when I encounter so may examples of love in nature

and all over the world…

one language is all I need to speak

UNIVERSAL LOVE

 Mother Nature blesses her biosphere with a universal love

given freely too everyone and everything upon her Earth

Meaning she treats everyone and everything as equals

believing everyone and everything has worth….

If she can show this universal love to everyone and everything

through the evening… and all day long….

when it comes to the humans populating this planet…

I wonder…where have we gone wrong?

AAS LONG AS HER HEART IS BEATING

 

With so much hatred in the world…with bullets flying and bombs dropping from above

We often have to remind ourselves…the world is still filled with love…

So here’s a story of a husband and wife…whose love was happily intertwined

even after they discovered the wife was going blind.

While they were anxiously waiting…before her blindness began…

her husband made a promise, “I will help you…any way I can.”

He accompanied her to her work…where the situation he helped her apprise 

then showed her how to do her job…without using her eyes.

Next he spent hours (for love and patience he didn’t lack)

teaching her how to take the bus to work…and how to take it back.

When he was sure she was ready…one morning he made it known..

that it was time for her to go to work…and come back on her own.

So nervously she kissed him goodbye…and although she was concerned

she did her best to remember everything she’d learned.

And she made it!  She boarded the bus…went to work…

determined not to let her blindness defeat her.

And when she got off the bus at the end of the day…he was there to greet her.

Two weeks into her new routine…the bus driver, who’s name was Al…

after greeting her when she boarded said, “You know…you are one lucky gal.”

“Lucky!” She said. “I’m blind…I lost my sight…I’ll never be able to see.”

“When you say that I am lucky…how lucky can I be.”

“Why you have a guardian angel.” The bus driver said. “I’m convinced you do.”

“Every day since you started riding my bus your husband’s been watching out for you.”

“He smiles when he sees you get on the bus…then waves to me and slowly walks away

he waves to me when you get to work…and when he meets you at the end of your day.”

She stopped and smiled at the bus driver…feeling happy and secure

knowing that her husband has been looking out for her…

She thanked the bus driver…then in her husband’s direction waved a greeting…

knowing though she can no longer see his love…

she will feel it

as long as her heart is beating.

HELPING OTHERS

 

Today I’m grateful for understanding how helping others

when they’re feeling hungry or sad or blue…

has this wonderful reciprocal effect…

of helping me feel better too.