Gratitude 08 … Sound
Today I am grateful for sound — both those ringing out all around me, as well as those pealing softly within …
*I am thankful for music & drumbeats, for trickling waters & storms of wind & rain, for the laughter of children & the giggling of adults, for the howls of coyotes & the cacophony of crows — for the purring of contented cats & the soft chirp of the cardinal as he calls to his Beloved at sunrise …
*I am thankful for the lonely lament of owls at midnight, and that instant of perfect silence that rests upon us all every day at midday …
*I am thankful for the words “I Love You” — even when the one doing the uttering is speaking from a worn script she holds in her head …
*I am thankful for the sound of The Brown Book, my smoothly-aged & Self-channeled “Life-Guide”, as I slowly open it to partake of its Truth & Wisdom …
*I am thankful for the crash of waves on stony beaches and the crackling embers of a dying bonfire that warm my hands & feet …
*I am thankful for every gently uttered prayer for Peace; wishing devoutly that God’s Highest Will someday be truly done …
*And I am thankful the Great-Silence upon which all these sounds dance — the Great Silence heard in every smile …
I am also thankful for sounds internal …
*I am thankful for the ever-more-prevalent creakings of my joints — reminding me that even now I can still move and sway and jump and run and dance (albeit more than a bit less gracefully than in younger days) …
*I am thankful for the rumblings in my stomach, reminding me that sustenance is always on its way; that to continue on is not so much a gift as it is a given …
*I am thankful for my own heartbeat that reminds me that I am alive and have been called to Live, and I am thankful for the heartbeats of others, both those of my dearest loved ones, as well as those of my most powerful enemies …
*I am thankful for the low, constant whine of the blood coursing through my body — the blood that flows to and from my heart, the Home of my Soul and the crucible of my Love …
*I am thankful for the velvet echoes of my breath, sustaining both body & mind — sustaining them that I might dedicate just one more moment to Loving …
*I am thankful for the smooth rustlings of every gentle kiss given or received — each a perfect union just this side of silence …
*And I am thankful for silence — the silence that resides at the very center of every atom of my being — the complete stillness upon which the entire Universe rolls & spins & tumbles, and the silence that weaves the backdrop upon which my Soul reaches out to lightly touch the cheek of God.
And so it is that I climb to my proverbial mountaintop, take a deep breath filled with profound reverence, and let loose with a long & loud –
Thank Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
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