I’ve taken a bit of an absence from writing lately, a time to clear my head of old thoughts and to see if there is still room for new ideas. That step away brought a type of solitude, an inward look into the entire last three years raising questions in my mind.
I have been missing my home of 22 years,
So many beautiful memories made in that house.
and the San Francisco Bay Area…the place of my entire existence up until our big move three years ago. To say that I never look back would be completely untrue. Something usually strikes a chord in me, however, bringing me back to this place.
As I sit here drinking my coffee and watching the morning sunrise,
I am taken by the unique beauty that is all around me. The sun’s light rises in the east, yet casts its first warmth on the western hills behind us slowly erasing the shadows of the night.
The diurnal wilds of the forest are awakening, yet the nocturnal are taking their last look around within the shadowy places. I know this because I hear the “hoot-hooting” of an invisible owl to whom I am probably well in focus, yet to me remains stealthily hidden.
A cacophony of birds, all different in their song, resounds in the background, the foreground, all around me. The neighboring farms are awakening with sounds of crowing, braying, gobbling, quacking, and the ever present, “Hey, I’m laying an egg here” repeated clucking of hens giving of their provisions.
I may have left my heart in the San Francisco Bay Area (seriously, this is true),
but my soul finds peace in this little slice of Oregon. Well, actually, my soul finds peace in Christ, but as I look around me, the brilliance of the Creator envelops my very being. That is what has drawn me to this place from the beginning…I see God’s handiwork all around me, and in that there is great peace, contentment, and a huge desire to be here…to be right here!
Colossians 3:15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
I hope you have a wonderful Sunday! And hey…Go Giants….and Niners!!! Both play today!!!!
Thank you for sharing my morning!!
Your friend from Oregon,
Tami
Build Me a Dream 
Comments on: "Morning Sunrise" (4)
Tami, I love your writing, you are seriuosly an awesome writer. You bring us from SF to Oregon and we feel like we are there with you. I saved that picture of your house in the snow and the awesome looking sky. That is a beautiful picture. Love ya Sis
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Steve, Thank you for such a great review!! Can I use this comment when I try to publish my Great American Novel?? LOL!! You are a seriously, awesome big brother!! Love you!!
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The snow photo is beautiful. I am a Canadian transplant living in Texas. I have been here so long I don’t know if I could do a real winter again. But I do miss snow. And the silence of it. I have been fortunate to have been raise on a farm and now still live on one. I agree there is a certain peace from living close to nature. That is hard to find elsewhere. Beautiful post. 🙂
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It is amazing how quiet it becomes when it snows, and then the crunch under your feet….I really do like it, for a little while. Thankfully, we only get two, maybe three snow events that accumulate each year….then they melt quickly. It’s all new to me, and still fun. Thanks for your kind words, Happylaughs!!
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