Day 120: Easter Sunrise

Today is Easter Sunday!  Perhaps you don't celebrate such a thing, but I do.  All of my roommates and I had decided we would attend a sunrise Easter service at 6am - so when my alarm went off at 5:00 and again at 5:21 and I still heard no movement, I questioned whether I would want to get up and go alone.

I didn't want to go alone so I figured I would wait - and then right at 5:31 I heard the light switch on in the next room and a door close... soon after a coffee grinder was going so I got up, got dressed and all of us left for the service together.  

Listening to the birds in the early morning is always something I enjoy - and then to see a sunrise complete with orange and pink cast across the sky... also delightful. For me, topping that off with the idea that there is something far greater than I am in this universe - and someone that can perhaps inspire larger meaning in life.  It was a joy.

The elements of nature around me the last few days have reminded me how comfortable it is to be in the peace outside of the busy world. Away from the crowds that both accept and reject people on a regular basis.  In a place where one can truly just be.

It is life-giving.