#BlogElul Day 9: See

                        Choosing to See

    the first time i looked up at a new mexico sky i marveled at the immensity of blue, at night i stood in awe beneath so many stars and in daytime i walked amid canyons that dwarfed me and watched the sun bathe the orange and red hoodoos until they turned into fire-bright colors

    we walked down bright angel trail deep into the grand canyon and stopped and watched a hummingbird flutter mid-air as if hanging from an invisible gossamer thread

    i spread my fingers, placed my hand against the rocks—up against the layers of sandstone, mudstone, and limestone--my handspan covers millions of years

    if I stop and look at a pebble, a leaf, the way the bark on a tree creates a pattern, water moving in a river, the ocean foam, dewdrops on a blade of grass…i see creation spread out