Sunday, October 16, 2011

Rope Swings

rope swings
On Friday I inhaled the air of mountain sweetness, the dazzling hints of fall, and between the gentle breeze and the slight whir of a bug buzzing by me, the silence was like a prayer.

I go to church on Sundays and at some point midweek, I will rush to a meeting. I read my scriptures at night, after the boys have gone to bed and I have prayed too, but the day to day moments with God I most adore are the quiet, unexpected glimpses—the sky at sunset, a baby’s lips the moment before they break into a smile, reading with the boys at bedtime and feeling more love than I ever seem to feel while they are awake. The morning light seems like a temple window when I wake up and exercise, the mountain miraculous in it’s changing leaves, the ocean a wonder too sacred to say. And sometimes, nothing feels more satisfactory than knowing all my housework is finished for the day, and I go to bed with a knowledge that I have done just as I should—and that Heavenly Father knows it. A God I seem to sense all around me.

And I wonder, what are the things that you do to feel closer to Heavenly Father and feel his love back?