So, I have begun to walk in the morning. My favorite time is just when the moon is humbly stepping aside to allow the sun to illuminate the day. I am determined to keep this up, health reasons being secondary, sanity my primary! Even though there was a wolf spotted at the top of my driveway last week and I drove home last night to find 4 coyotes in my front yard…..I will continue!
I spend this precious 30 minutes reflecting. Sometimes I will listen to a Youtube talk, sometimes I will go over one of my own talks that I am practicing (that’s my least favorite way to spend the time – I hear my own chatter far too much), but the most ‘productive’ (much too harsh a word for the results that are gained) way to spend the time is to listen. Some may think that nature is silent, but if you are the one that is silent, then you open your self to hearing the voice of God.
All of creation has much to teach us. All is gift and God is constantly reaching out to us, revealing himself, and loving us.
After my few minutes of ‘heaven’, my frantic day begins and I get lost in the busy-ness of grown-up things that must be taken care of and dealt with. There are problems to solve, work to be done, and on and on until I sink into bed each night being more weary than tired.
And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matt. 18:3
Thirty minutes each morning I become that little child and allow myself to be awed by God’s world. I think that I have experienced heaven…..Give it a try…
Reflections on the Journey 
Beautiful! It is in the silence that we are able to hear the voice of our Lord.