A TIME OF INTROSPECTION ---
A MOVEMENT OF SOUL FROM BLINDNESS TO IN-SIGHT (continued)

Whitman goes on to describe the many “miracles” of daily life: the miracles of walking the streets of Manhattan, wading with naked feet along the beach, standing under trees in the woods, talking “with anyone I love” by day or sleeping “with anyone I love” by night, or looking at strangers sitting opposite him in a car, or birds, “or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, or the exquisite delicate curve of the moon in spring …”

Likewise, the character “Aaron” in the movie “Latter Days” first sees (looking down from an airplane window upon Los Angeles) life as a plethora of disconnected tiny twinkling dots of individual lives and events; then he later sees life as like the dots of color seen close up on a comic book page -- a blur we can’t understand from that perspective. And finally after experiencing a redemptive love in a friendship with another person (and including experiencing physical love in a sincere and sharing context), he sees that the dots are all connected and it makes sense and life is ultimately good. And as he concludes that there are no coincidences, there are “only miracles,” his own life, itself, becomes yet another example of The Miracle -- as ALL our lives can become, and are God-intended to become, a miracle.

Whitman writes:
“To me every hour of the night and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same"

So from the “blindness” of living on “the road more traveled by” we can move to “the miracle of seeing miracles everywhere” on “the road less traveled by.”

Please feel free and welcome to contact Rev. Ousley with any questions, comments or prayer requests.