Did porch pondering in the porch swing today and it was so marvelous darlings. The sky was light blue, cloudless I thought, till I leaned back in the swing and realized Father Sky had lightly stroked his white pastel all over the sky canvas. The clouds were as thin as an exquisite gossamer veil on a blushing bride. I think he and Mother Nature had a wedding on their mind as they prepared for the pageant of sunset.

The sun was a bright beam of silver light as she took Father Sky’s arm to be escorted down the horizon’s sunset stage. As her first foot touched the horizon, the clouds gathered and joined the sun on stage dressed in exquisitely chic formal gowns of rainbow pastels in pale shades of pink, turquoise, and lavender. Their dresses fanned out across the horizon like the brush strokes of Mother Nature’s watercolor brushes and colored the twilight in wondrous luminous color that was pulled and stretched across the horizon like delicious rainbow taffy.

Father Sky kissed the sun goodnight, turned out the day’s light, and hurriedly pinned the stars on the night sky canvas. Mr. Waxing Gibbous Moon beat the stars to the black velvet sky stage by waking up early. He managed to almost dress himself fully, he’s clothed 92%. Father Sky reprimanded the moon and told him he better be fully dressed for the pageant of nighttime by Saturday night. The stars twinkled with laughter and glimmered with mirth. The night was awakened well and the day was tucked in tightly in a cloud quilt of rainbow taffy.

Read this quote a while back and typed it in my iPad for a later blog. Been thinking about it off and on for a few days. “The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live,” Auguste Rodin. I think this is a short definition to a life well lived. We all live in the world but do we really live and experience all life has to offer. The Lord has given us so many ways to express ourselves and so many gifts to share with the world. Experiencing emotions is both wonderful and frightening. We can tremble with fear or tremble with anticipation. We can have hope and with faith in God we are promised tomorrow will come. Trusting God results in a peaceful and joyous life, giving us the assurance that we’ll be reunited with our loved ones in the glorious heavens.

Lots of things move me and cause my eyes to flood with happy tears. I’m easily moved with tears, sometimes embarrassing myself. Everyday experiences bring tears to my eyes — watching my oldest son’s loving relationship with his wife and children; watching my son Stewart in the throes of a genuine breath taking laugh; my granddaughter singing in her school choir and running around the soccer field; my grandsons playing the French horn and my trumpet in their school’s band concerts and watching them participate in their soccer and basketball games, being thankful they are all happy and well; seeing all my brothers and their families gathered joyously together at family celebrations, heads bowed during the dinner prayer. Seeing the red cardinals some days make me tear up knowing Chief has sent them to cheer me.

And nothing makes me tear up faster with sadness than a mother being hateful to a child, jerking them around and using language they should never hear, specially not hear it in public, spewed out viciously on them by a parent. I always want to walk up, interrupt them and say, “You know, my child is dead and I wish I could have her back. You have a beautiful little one and treat it like that. Shame on you!” Course I never speak, just walk to the car from the store, holding back tears, wondering what the mother does to the child at home if she treats the child that disrespectful in public. Let us pray for the world’s children that they always feel loved and wanted, so many, many don’t.

Our being on earth has a purpose, not to seek happiness or pleasure but to live a life in Christ’s image. I think we find meaning in our life when we serve humanity, when we let kindness and love lead the way we travel on Earth. Let’s live a life of service to our fellow man. Let’s be moved, let’s love deeply, let’s hope for future beautiful days, and let’s tremble with anticipation. Let’s live our lives faithfully!

“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” — (Attributed to various sources.)