A Soft Release.

It can be hard to look up, and around. Awareness to what is good, can be swallowed by overwhelm so often, diminishing what our eyes, ears, and hearts can be attuned too.

A few evenings ago, I was walking close to the sunset hour. As I looked up, I saw a display of softness my soul was craving. A fellow walker near me had their eyes downcast toward the ground and I found myself exclaiming to them, "Look! Look that this soft pink sky before us!" They looked up, and then to me, and with tired, yet kind eyes shared that it was just what they had needed to see in that moment, and that they would not have noticed, had it not been brought to their attention to look up." I needed that too.

I thought about their response several times as I walked, thinking of our kind exchange. The importance of helping each other "to look up, and around" is so very necessary to our connectedness, helping us realize the softness that awaits us in so many ordinary moments.

As busy or complicated as it may feel or be, may we always and forever, point each other to the soft light and releases meant for each and every one of us.

"The beloved are walking in darkness, and have seen a light which has dawned." 
Isaiah 9:2-6