The Color Purple

There is just something so beautiful about the color purple.  When I was a little girl I used to think that purple meant abundance and wealth and magnificent beauty.  I would imagine growing up one day and having purple surround me.  I think it all began whenever I saw a painting at a neighbor's house--a beautiful purple rose hanging on her bedroom wall.  She told me that it stood for beauty and wealth and grace.  I wish I had thought to ask her to elaborate, but I was always so drawn to that beautiful, life-like painting of the purple rose and often marveled at its beauty and imagined being surrounded by purple one day.  Then I grew up and my desire for purple seemed to just get lost somewhere along the way.  Yet still, whenever I run across the color purple I have to stop and catch my breath.  Purple says so much to me--love, warmth, beauty, grace, wealth and comfort.

Yes, I guess you can say, I still love the color purple and most likely I always will.

The Setting Sun

How do you do this? 

How do you make the sunset appear so majestically across the western sky like this? 

How is it that when I try so hard not to be drawn to the beauty,

the very depth of splendor that unveils before my very eyes

 that I cannot bear to keep from watching? 

There is something so beautiful,

so serene, so ethereal about the setting sun

at the end of the day.

All I know is that the Beauty I see

calls to me

and I feel compelled to capture

it whenever I can.

Dear Universe/Dear God Above,

if ever you hear my prayer,

hear it now:

I need your majestic grace, your beauty, your splendor

to adorn my life

I need to know, to feel, to see

that wherever I am going

whatever I am doing

however I am living

always, always, always

you will give to me

the beauty and grace and splendor

of your setting sun.

I cannot bear the thought

of not getting to watch

the sun going down

in the western sky.

Always it is such a display

a work of art

and magnificence

that captures my heart

and makes me know

that I am so insignificant

in the huge scheme of things.

Sunsets are Nature's promise

of another day done

and sunrises

are a promise

of a wonderful day to come!

Early Morning Sunrise