With Every Walk

With every walk: 

I think what that draws me out to walk each morning, hours still before sunrise, is simply curiosity, something new is revealed to me with every walk - and I'm eager to discover what might be shown. It's a soft adventure of these early hours, night's over, yet darkness lingers in slightly lessening hues, subtle, but noted if I pay attention to the qualities of light and the shadows that play across the ground. Everything's a mystery right now, a borderland of two worlds touched together so briefly for only these specific moments just before dawn.

 and I don't dare miss them any longer. 

as my wish is to be revealed as well. 

 discovering myself as something new.

with every walk.

and truly that's it, my walks reveal my deepest participation with the world, that I bring the qualities of my own involvement with light and shadows, acting as a listening presence to whatever animal scurries along the edge woods and trail. These walks are more of a prayer than exercise, I am asking for a show of God in the mysteries of these hours, not in metaphors, but through the actualities of my experience.  My prayers are always answered, softly though, not in grand gestures of a higher power, but just my own revelation of belonging fully to these hours. 

that I am touched on everything by light and shadows. 

with every walk...

I am shown that I belong.

and my curiosity only grows stronger each morning, drawing me out so early, joining these two worlds through the bridge of my awareness, 

finding myself in deep participation. 

revealed. 

~

Peace, Eric