Word Wednesday

Sunset

The sun slowly sinking into the sea, pulls out all the crayons from the crayon box, as she leaves.
A splash of red, pink here, and swaths of blue, orange and magenta there, all these will do.
And when the first bit of the glowing sphere touches the horizon, time seems to speed up,
But the artist of the sunset is not quite done.  More colors...more beauty...more ooohs and ahhs to awake.
More causing people to stop their frayed, frenzy lives, if only for a sec.
To reflect.
To remember what peace can feel like.
To breathe and be.
To laugh.
To sense joy.
To see.
One moment caught on film, that is it, in a life time of so many sunsets.
But this one, on this day, was the one my camera captured.
Each day in twenty-four hours we fill with the stuff we think makes up a life.
Checking off boxes to-do,
Accomplishing tasks,
Going to work,
Cooking dinner,
Cleaning,
Shopping,
Zoom meetings.

Which list do people remember?  Do they remember the clean kitchen or the time you laughed?  Do they remember the title of your job or the time you held hands before the setting sun?

One sunset of a thousand...my picture is not unique.

But that moment helped remind me of what I might miss in this life that really, truly matters.

May the traces of God's grace guide you from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same this day.  Amen ~~