Today: Day One (A Daily Meditation)

I was feeling happy – walking in the snow to the bus that was taking me to Work. The sun had just come up and the street lamps still provided most of the light…and I was already happy to start my day. If how I was feeling in that moment was an indication of what I could expect for the day well…I didn’t think I could go wrong.

While walking, my eyes caught the bouquet of dried flowers and in the moment I was moving on. Aware of my tendency to “just miss” that damned bus but still I was inspired to stop, return and look again. Delicate dried flowers were nestled into a patch of snow. Perfectly shaped clusters of dried ivory flowers appeared staged in a recess of sparkling white snow…

I stood there, looking at how beautiful they were – and how strange it would seem for how and where these flowers appeared. The trampled, dirty, yellow snow of winter disappeared and only the wonder of the moment, and the stirring in my heart remained. I smiled a secret smile and from my mouth came the words, “He sent flowers for me.”

I acknowledged the flowers as a gift from the Universe, and then left them with the hope that someone else would happen upon them and wonder of the beauty in such unlikely places and how often people pass God by without noticing. Today, I am touched, and moved and always awed by the ways that God will speak to me and the simply beautiful things that I have seen to prove it.

This is who I am today, and who I am is powerful.