Thursday, June 28, 2007

Where Heaven Stops and Earth Begins

"And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began."

Forrest Gump

You've seen that place before too.

The sunrise over the blue mountains in the distance somewhere in the middle of Montana, the sunset over a vast flat as a pancake prairie as you head west through North Dakota, the sun as it dips below the ocean somewhere in the gulf of Mexico or over a pine scented lake in Northern Minnesota. Cedar trees drooping with their heavy coats of snow in the Pacific Northwest. A field high in the mountains bursting with wildflowers.

A yard full of children laughing and playing. A baby sleeping. Two old friends visiting. A dog being a dog. A cello playing, a singer singing - it's there - you just have to stop and look.