"Today I am open to the presence of miracles."
Deepak Chopra
I was watching a home decorating program the other day and the woman was trying to describe the kind of white paint she wanted for the kitchen cabinets. She finally blurted out: "You know, winter white." I certainly do know what kind of "white" she was talking about. I'd seen it up close and personal last week.
We've just come through a really cold week where temperatures were in the minus digits and that was without the wind chill. One morning I pulled back the curtains to look out and was greeted by what looked like a white canvas. Snow had fallen over night and everything was covered in a light blanket of white. The clouds hid the hills in the distance so that they seemed to disappear. What really amazed me, though, was the air itself. Right in front of my eyes, the frozen air was filled with ice crystals that had turned into prisms which, reflecting the light and the color of the ground around it, had turned the very air into a hazy white curtain. It was more than just your run-of-the-mill fog - it was a pure, white painting ... winter white.
I always say that if you really want to see miracles, go out into nature. They are all around you. From my ice crystal day, to a hauntingly beautiful sunset, to the first tips of green shooting up through the frozen ground, to the sight of a flock of geese urging each other across the sky, to the glory of the Grand Canyon, to the stark beauty of the ocean at dawn ... miracles are all around us. How many times can we see something in nature that shouldn't have happened by any stretch of the imagination but, somehow, it did? And when I say nature, I am including human nature as well. How many times when all hope is lost does someone pull through a life-ending injury or illness? Or a childless couple who had given up hope discover that they are pregnant?
I came across the above quote by Deepak Chopra as part of a guided meditation on the miraculous journey through life. Looking at that crystal curtain of light the other day, I, too, am prepared to see miracles today ... and every day. May you see them as well.
And so it is.
