Good Morning, God
Here in Tucson — near daughter Sandy and her family — for a bit over a month! And I have fallen in loved with the SKY — an Active, Moving (and by night, Electric) SKY. Truly, God! The Heavens do DECLARE Your GLORY.
We arrived July 13 — during Monsoon Season — and I have stood at night before our huge windows — marveling at the LIGHTENING DISPLAYS! In AWE!!! Kit, who was also watching asked me, “WHY no THUNDER?” Oddly enough, I just had assumed that sheet lighting didn’t make noise . . . but I went to look it up and found that lightening further than 10 miles away — can’t be heard. Imagine!
Aaah, that brings to mind, the TOTAL importance of being Heard. Paul Watzlawick once said that the primary purpose of human communication was to confirm our existence …. as humans beings. And then, having looked him up — only to get his name spelled correctly — I found myself immersed in his theories. I am thinking of one of his axioms: “You cannot NOT communicate.” And the scorched earth effect of refusing to speak about a problem.
But truly, God, if we all just realized HOW MUCH we need to have our EXISTENCE CONFIRMED. . . .we (well, surely, I )would be so much the better for it. Hmmm, it is our existence as Human Beings. . . preferably healthy, kind, caring human beings!
Which brings up my ongoing efforts to become one of those. I find — especially in an election year — that AVOIDING NEWS sources is helpful. Otherwise one is hoisted up into the Good Guys vs Bad Guys story and urged to hate / despise and fear others. I think it was Frank Zappa who described politics as the Entertainment Arm of the Military Industrial Complex. Sigh . . . Into YOUR HANDS, GOD!!!!
And I return to pondering our almost magical relocation — with Thanksgiving!
Story teller,
A Moment with God 
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