4 DECEMBER 2022 LIFE IS LIKE THAT

There is something almost exciting about the morning sun streaming through the window after several days of clouds and snow. It warms the heart at least, if not yet the body. It is the days in between the storms that help to make the winter bearable.

Life is like that. It is the happy moments, the precious memories that help to cover the darker ones, the way the sunlight covers the darkness of night. When I contemplate this truth, it helps me to glide through any unpleasantness I encounter – almost as though it never happened. During the frigid temperatures of the previous week, the frozen pipe, and the ensuing cleanup, I reminded myself often that “this too, shall pass.” And, it did. Then came the next storm. Now, it has passed on, too. It reminds me of a ferris wheel. One moment you are at the top, then at the bottom, and then the top again. I sometimes pull myself away, far enough to see that the things that are happening are nothing more than events, events that continue ad infinitum. It is like I am watching a movie of my life, where I am the spectator rather than the protagonist.

I am enjoying the sun this morning for a brief period of time as it floods my living room with light. Soon I will have to let it go and move into midday, then into the afternoon, and evening once again. The early morning will always be my favorite time of day; but it is the darkness and the nighttime that have shown me how to appreciate it.