:You are loved:

“Limitless undying love which shines 

around me like a million suns

 it calls me on and on across the universe.”

john lennon

I was driving along feeling a bit hopeless.  
It really was an extraordinary morning.  The breeze was cool and blew through the window that I had cracked.  The coolness of the morning tried to awaken me, but I, well I was was deep inside myself closing off from the world--becoming detached from my emotions---something I've perfected over the last 50 years of my life and I suppose at times--it has served me well-but all too well at other times.

Just as I was almost to the place where I get to work--it happened!  From out of an ordinary detached morning from myself--something from the Universe stepped out and created a normal but yet extraordinary scenario for me to take in.

The light turned red and I was stuck at the light.  I tapped the steering wheel to the beat of black gospel praise on the radio---and zoned out.  I looked to my right and there they were---same old green van, same old balding dad in his teal green scrubs---same little blond girl--grown up a bit since I last wrote about them but there they were---waiting for me I suppose.

The bus pulled up.

Dad got out of the car, rushed around to help his girl out of the car.  He looked at her with love and adoration and as I watched I realized that the love I witnessed was filling up the air around me almost in such a tangible way, I could just about reach out and touch the invisible atoms that were bombarding off them, zooming out into the atmosphere and somehow making it over to me----50 (not almost 50 something anymore) reaching me--just when I needed it most.

He stared at her--you could tell he believed that she actually hung the moon and she him.   He helped her on the bus and stood staring as she took her seat to take her on to school that day.  As I assume she was sitting, he was still staring--standing there at the door waiting for something--and just as the bus drove off---he pulled up his hand and signed the "symbol for love"  holding it high and unashamed as his "girl" drove off for her day so school...

and 

there I sat

on what felt like a hopeless day

and i smiled...

smiled at the wonder of the Universe...

smiled because

I knew

the stopping at the light 

was no mere accident

for

I

i needed a subtle reminder

that

I too had been sent off 

for my day at work

with similar 

types of wonder.

Big Daddy packing my lunch

a "love you too" from my girl

off color son--he was still asleep but I peaked in right before I left 

I zoned out for just a bit

smiled again

and

felt a sense of Holy

as I remembered the sound of the symphony 

of birds playing as I got in my car...
cool breeze whispering --you're alive---LIVE! in my ear.

Something in me shifted--if only for a fragment of a day---
and as the bus
drove off
I whispered a prayer of thanksgiving
for 
all those I loved and adored
and
thanked the Creator
for 
that great "love" sign
just when I needed it most.

Have and be a  great day!!!
Watch for it!!!
that sign that you are loved....it is right in front of you!

Blessings...

the radical rambler...