Do you ever find yourself literally spellbound by an intense truth or reality? Has a universal concept really sunk through the layers of your life and finally made you catch your breath? The actually of what this thought represents seriously jolts your brain so that you must physically stop what you are doing and take the time to let your consciousness wrap itself around the WHAT and the HOW? Contrasted to the proverbial light bulb comes on adage which plucks a "dah-moment" cord for the masses, I am talking about very personal and introspective "whoa" moments. Let me share some of mine with you and see if you have, as well, experienced similar mind-stopping situations.
I worked out in the yard yesterday afternoon preparing the garden for the winter. I was cutting back the clumps of Sedum and came in contact with the extremely sharp canes left over from last year's harvest. These woody stems are very much like bamboo stalks and I expect are reminiscent of the slivers pushed under fingernails for torturous purposes....at least that is what my skin was screaming at me. (I know, I know...wear garden gloves and I would have avoided the muliple cuts I now sport. Hey, I was in a hurry and intended to have the job done in quick time.) When I had put all the stems in the yard bag, I noticed the small gouges and thought how nice my hands would be looking at work on the morrow(ha)....but then it hit me. In a week or so my skin will look as if nothing happened. No scabs. No scars. Perfectly healed. No trace of any tears at all. How incredible is that??!? As soon as the epideral layer was cut the cells had begun to rebuild and replace and repair. Think about that. I didn't tell them to do their job. There was no memo or email or text message or meeting. Our bodies are mind-boggling machines filled with constant life forces all directed by microscopic masterminds directing every complicated mission our very breath depends on. Wow.
The fact that two itsy-bitsy cells unite and our race is procreated in infinite detail is crazy.
Look up at the sky on a dark, clear night and gaze at the stars and planets glow back at you knowing that the light you see left that surface years ago traveling at the speed of over a hundred thousand miles per second. Or experience a glorious meteor shower or look at an lunar eclipse through a huge telescope. Leaf through pages of a magazine showing photos of the Milky Way from the Hubble telescope. Now do you feel like a little tiny piece of this mind-blowing puzzle?
Think of the life of the one man who saved mankind by sacrificing his own through his pure and unselfish love. Then consider all of the others who have willingly given theirs following his example.
All miracles. All gifts. Truly, in the purest form, awesome.
