I haven’t felt very inspired to write since losing my brother a few month’s ago. Last night, I found this – something I wrote a couple of years ago while traveling by plane to a work event. Perspective is a good thing – every day. Strive to find it.
I think of you a lot when I am traveling by air. It’s quiet, but that’s obvious. It feels closer to what we all perceive to be “heaven” though I know that’s not the case anymore. Maybe it’s because I feel lifted away from the world below for a little while – as you must be. Lighter, flying. Maybe it’s because I can see the clouds and the beauty of them through different eyes, closer up as I travel through their mist and become a part of them as you must get to do.
Maybe it’s because the sun is more beautiful from up here – brighter. Its colors shining though the sky with blinding streams. Prisms of light coursing through the sky. Or possibly, it’s because what lies below looks so small in comparison to what our lives must really be in the larger scheme of things.
The water always captures my attention. Its movement, its ebb and flow. The currents so visible from above, moving one way and another, just as our lives do. The ships on its surface looking so small from this higher perspective, easily sitting atop and moving their way through it.
The homes below sit in their selected spots upon the land. Some in neat boxes, perfectly lined in subdivision streets while others sit alone with expansions of land all around them. These look especially peaceful and inviting – as if they have figured out a secret the rest did not.
There is the majesty of the mountains so regal, yet still so small from the view above it all. All of the twists, the turns, the heights, the flatlands create an amazing tapestry to look upon and somewhere still above it all lies a peacefulness in knowing that there is still more. For there is you.
There is you and a creator and a whole other part of creation which we are unable to see with our eyes but one you have led me to on this path to once again remember and to feel. To learn that there is being a human being and being a soul – that they are inexplicably tied and both a part of creation. So today I ride in gratefulness for the knowledge, the perspective, and for you my sweet boy.
