It is early morning. The sky is aglow with a crystalline serenity in its promise of a bright and beautiful day.
Come - relax and take a journey with us into these ever-loving valleys and everlasting hills where mountain springs give birth to pure waters that flow downward into gurgling brooks.
Touch the azure sky - Laugh at the antics
of Winter tweety birds - Smell the crisp dancing scent of white pine- fuse with all living
things.
We sense an inner peace, a love for all humankind and a well-being for all living things.
It comes from our knowing of the interplay between all creatures great and small, all things bright and beautiful and the wonderful wisdom that weaves in and out of the tapestry of life.
Life is a constant surprise when we look in child-like wonder and play in harmless fun. Our freedom is our simplicity. The heart is lighter, the mind refreshed, the soul brighter.
Our hearts open. We become in tune with one another and all things. Giving and receiving, caring and sharing, loving and being loved.
Our dreams, hopes and desires take on a different meaning and we see things in a different perspective.
Each little awareness shows us how all things have value; from the mourning dove that brings feelings of primitive joy, to the Spring grasses that whisper in their quiet moaning to bring forth new life.
With each new experience our world becomes a little richer, more meaningful, much lighter. It is welcomed like a breath of Springtime, the song of the sparrows, the star-speckled heavens above.
It feels good to sense the suns warm ray's, to watch rainbows reflect from our hair, to know love from the depths of our souls, to hear heaven's sweet melody as snowflakes touch-kiss and gently blanket the Earth below, and to remember Summer's wildflower meadows as we walked hand in hand in the preciousness of the day; its mellowness and kaleidoscopic colors pressed between the pages of our minds.
There is nothing as important as the heart of us (all living things) and the pathway knows no end. To be in touch is to become intimate and to be intimate comes out of kindness, mutual need, caring, sharing and the gentle loving of all life and living.
We invite your soul to touch ours in the joy and intermingling of all things as a soft rainbow melts into the setting sun beyond the horizon leaving its pastel colors as a promise for tomorrow.
Copyright © 1988-2000 Barbara A. Smith and John G. Hipps. All rights reserved.
This essay was first published February 15, 1989 in the Free-Press Courier, Westfield, Pennsylvania.