Been a while since I've written on this blog. Didn't realize it had been so long until I pulled it up and looked. WOW! Time certainly flies when life gets in the way!
Been walking more these days. Not long walks, but walking just the same. The muscles have grown flabby, the ligaments and tendons have shortened and it doesn't take much to stretch them too far...but I am trying. Not just for physical health, which you'll get no argument from me...is vital. However, a walk tends to sooth my nerves, lower my blood pressure, hone my senses and causes me to smile...even when I'm panting and wondering if I'm going to have to crawl all the way back home!
The wind in my ears makes me think of the breath of God...I can not literally see Him, but I know He's there because I feel His breath upon the winds and hear His voice as it rushes over me.
The cotton-tail hidden beneath the creosote bush reminds me that God cares for even he and aren't I every bit as important to God as a bunny rabbit? 
The tiny purple and white desert flowers reminds me that God can place beauty anywhere in this world, but it is up to us to take the time to slow down, look around and both find and see it.
The wave of a passer-by, the smile of an elderly man sitting on his front porch, a nod from a lady heading out to her car to go to work...The barking dogs, the stray cats, the birds flying overhead, a deer bounding off from the yard of an abandoned house just a few blocks ahead...The rumbling of a freight train, it's horn blowing blasts that echo off the hills and create a beautiful harmonic symphony in the early morning hours...The eighteen wheelers on the main highway, shifting down as they pass through town...
All these sights and sounds remind me that I am alive to see, hear, feel and enjoy the simple beauties of life in a small town. 
Life may not be perfect. It may fail miserably in so many ways. And, yet??? Life is beautiful, grand, magnificent and something to be appreciated, cherished, respected, admired and, yes, LOVED!
For it is by the Grace of God that I am alive today...and I thank Him for another day to live, to breath, to see, to smell, to feel, to hear, to speak, to write, to walk and to praise Him for His Love!
Glory Be to God in the Highest!