Evey morning, every day, as I twist the rod, the blind shade tilts and sunshine comes into me and my life…
I love waking up in the freshness of my bedroom and the promise of a new day. The walls are painted sunshine yellow. The bed comforter is white as snow. The surrounding lower wall of old yellow oak wooden panels representing the solid heritage that envelops my being, The floor of hickory a firm foundation in golf and life. I twist the handle and the blind shades tilt to let in the sunshine from the eastern sky. The bedroom illuminates magically and the brightness of sunlit light envelopes me inside and out. This moment will carry me through the day until another twist and tilt will bring darkness. At that time I transition to the soft light of a humble candle burning. I will be grateful for another day that has passed and brought me back into the comfort of a restorative sleep.
Truly, it is the simple perspectives, encounters and reality that bring peace, joy and freedom, The Ultimate Love of one’s Splendid Spiritual Self to life in my life. I am open, honest and willing to face and experience whatever it is that God deems necessary for me in the next sixteen waking hours.
My attitude is one of gratitude for the twist and tilts that my friends, fellow human beings, shower me with on this journey through life. They bring sunshine into my life for which I am eternally grateful.
My sanctuary is walled with woody remembrances of my Uncle Paul and the cleanliness and sunshine there for us to see and be every day alive!
A call from my son and an ensuing adult conversation of goodwill and meaningful connection; connecting with a lover with the hope and promise of a beautiful life together; friends that I can share the truth of my imperfect self and imperfect life and who will text or call me back in my time of need always ready to meet me with their simple secure smile of acceptance no matter what happens to me or them. A run on the beach and the moment afterwards panting at the wide and open watery vista, my heart beating for more inspiring life experiences to take me to even a higher level of Splendid Spiritual Self being in this world. This is all I can hope for in the day ahead, to see beyond, feel beyond and be beyond my actual world reality.
A painting by a friend that depicts the tornadic route our life journey sometimes takes though the TROML Process to arrive at our Splendid Spiritual Self!
And then at night as the candle slowly is extinguished into a whispering trail of smoke I go to sleep with the expectation of awakening to my twist and tilt world but knowing if my sleep takes me to where my Mom and Dad are and other loved ones that that is okay too. I have readied myself through the TROML Process and transition to a Splendid Spiritual Self as best I could for the transformation to the beyond what we know and experience today where there is no darkness in thought, word or deed, no twist and tilt necessary to carry on, just Heaven and a new eternal life.
TROML Baby!
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