Applauding the Sunrise

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As I sat down to write this morning, it was still dark.  My mind travelled back to the night before.  So much going on in the world right now.  Something new every day.  But that isn’t what I thought about.  It was my phone call with Bill, my partner.  For work, he’s been sent to one of their offices in the Keys.  (No, it’s not lost on him that he gets sent to paradise for work during a “crisis”! :) So, he Facetimes me so that we can watch the sunset together. (And no, it’s not lost on me that this is the amazing partner I have, and this is what we do during a “crisis”! : ) Anyway!  At the very moment that the sun finally slips down and says goodnight, I hear all of this cheering and clapping.  He says that he can hear it all down the beach.  And I thought “how cool!” …applauding the sunset.  And for a moment, for all of us that got to experience that, world events weren’t the “big show”.  For a moment, it was the simple, beautiful gift of a sunset. 

So, I’m sitting here this morning in the dark thinking about that moment and the new day ahead of me.  So much going on that’s out of my control.  So much that I can’t fix or figure out right now.  And thank God no one is asking! (Specially to fix the economy! Pretty sure I got a “C” in ECON!) 

So that’s what I was doing when Bill called to share the sunrise.  I asked him if people were clapping for the sunrise and he said that no one else was out there that he could see.  So, we took a few minutes to watch and appreciate this gift that so often I take for granted. 

I get caught up in my head…my thoughts…my opinions and beliefs…my to-do lists…my worries.  But what if for just a moment today, I just let go of all of that?  What if for a moment, the “big show” becomes about all that’s going right?  What if for a moment, I drop out of my thought…my intellectual mind that loves to figure things out, get a handle on things, and come up with a plan?  What if for a moment, I come back to that part of me that just knows what, if anything, to do or say in every moment?  That space under all the noise, the quieter place that appreciates a sunrise that I did absolutely nothing to help create. 

Maybe…just maybe if I can find moments like that today, that’s me…applauding the sunrise.  That’s me experiencing the real “big show” in this life.  The one that is there for every single person in this world…that’s always being enacted.  Maybe, we all might find one of those moments today.  Maybe it will take the form of a perfect sip of coffee or a present moment with a child or just a laugh…it doesn’t really matter.  It all comes from the same place.  It’s all applauding the sunrise.