Perception

Walking home from the fulfilled mission the day weighs on my shoulder, lacking stimuli with the knowledge that I have already conceived all that is around me, I decide to challenge my intellect. As I shift through a simple labyrinth of streets, which provide a predictable path home, yet lack desired diversity; I wonder what this intellectual depravity must look like through the eyes of a child. I clear my mind of every thought.

A single blade of grass. This blades base seemingly strait, tilts back welcoming others around. Another leans across as if in the embrace of a close friend. Looking across what feels like a green sea of relationships frozen in time, I see a gentle breeze skimper atop this close, interwoven family. My eyes chase this fleeing life only to be halted by death. My eyes land on a plane of rock revealing no living character other than imprinted remnants and stains of the past. This cold dry view of what was at my feet comes to life as clear morsels end their pilgrimage. Empathy becomes a tangible observation as dark blotches calmly covered this bland flat of stone. This lifeless canvass is painted drop by drop. Like a fleeting thought, the path of my feet is infused with color and depth; now dampness is its embrace. Acuity is short handed while clouds drift by unveiling my next pursuit of interest. This water that has given color to the comatose concrete sidewalk now conveys greater amending influence. The bumps and dips in the ground that lacked any interest now sparkle alive as sunlight trickles over its peaks and valleys.

A blazing light steals my attention from the sheen and shimmer dancing before my feet and entangles me in a moment. Overwhelming is this light; it shines so intensely that I cannot look directly at it. Viewing this Phenomenon out of the corner of my eye, this radiance pounds a peak in the asphalt road; where elsewhere is untouched. Then, right before my eye lay a still and entrapping interest. A reflection through the same element that has provided such character already; Water unites: a flat surface with the bumpy surface below, a view of what is beneath the veil and what is above. This puddle captured an image of wisps with white and blue that fills the skies. Clouds lay before me as if some unknown force held them there, so I could simply reach out and touch. I Step outside the depth of this moment were all of my surrounding come alive, as if the light had a body so it could dance for me.

Now, thoroughly revived in my perception of the world I thought I knew, I let back the thought I have accumulated over time. I remember learning of the need for water all living creatures posses, and how this life-giving element circulates throughout the world as if it were the blood of life itself. In thought I step back to contemplate. My heart races and my palms sweat. My eyes flutter motionless as my mind attempts to take in more than it is capable of, interpreting the reality that there is so much more out there to perceive. I am left rapt in amazement and reverence with the revelation that by no conceivable act of randomness, by nothing less than the expressed implicit intent of the wisdom and power of the unfathomable God with limitless imperceptible love could anything of this stature be achieved.