{Day 268}

We cheered with glee and delight as those little legs kicked the ball into the goal.  Score!  Friday night I watched as my five year old nephew played his first soccer game of the season.  The trees started to turn all golden as the game came to a close and turning around I was stunned by the beauty of the sunset.  Illuminated clouds shimmering orange translucent flame made me stand there in amazement.  Sun beams streamed out into the blue sky like a glorious fan.  And somehow looking at the quickly changing light display in front of me I felt light.  The next day as I stood on the edge of a cliff and took in the ocean view I felt the same sensation.  Awe.  Those moments that take your breath away yet make you want to sing at the top of your lungs…simultaneously.  A bubbling up of pure bliss in my soul that leaves me almost breathless to the point that I don’t care who sees me unable to contain waves of emotion.  There is something so fulfilling about being awed.  I long for that.  Indeed I believe that it was because I was created for that very thing.  While the sunset and the ocean made me stop in wonder it was the Creator behind them that really left me wanting to praise.  God ultimately is the one that awes me.  If these scenes leave me feeling like that and this is just a taste of what to come then how can I not rejoice.  I rejoice indeed!  So whether I’m on the edge of a nation looking into a vast sheet of rippling blue or standing in the middle of a soccer field with lots of little people I can still be awed.  Manifestations of my Creator are everywhere.  I just need to stop and ponder them.