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| PDX at sunrise |
What do you think about when you think about driving to
work? If you’re like most you view it as something that just has to be done…sitting
in traffic…sometimes for hours at a time is not what one calls joy. Maybe you’d have one of those bumper stickers
that say, “I’d rather be” … fill in the blank. Perhaps even, ‘I’d rather be
cleaning the toilet’. OK, that’s too far, but you get my point. You’d
likely think that I’m nuts when I say that I
truly have always loved my drive to work.
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| View from Marine Drive |
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| Mount Hood and Columbia River |
One of my favorite authors wrote a book called ‘Recapture the Wonder’. Sometimes it can be so easy to lose our focus of…wonder. Wonder…sits
right outside my car window. In Alaska I drove the Parks/Glenn Highway from
Palmer to Anchorage taking in the view of Mount Denali, or as some say, Mount
McKinley. How spectacular is that? And for these past twenty-seven years I’ve
had Mount Hood, Oregon’s highest, sitting directly to the east. I have frequently
been overwhelmed by her beauty, such that I would pull over to capture it on
film. Now that’s dating myself…the younger folk say…film?
Then there is the wonder of…color. And old friend, Gary
Lattrell wrote, “God made the colors for you and me, beautifully for us to see.
Glad He didn’t make them black and white much to our delight. God put the
colors in the red, red rose and in the green in the grass that grows and all
the colors of the butterfly as he goes fluttering by. But the colors I love
best when I lay my head to rest, are watching white clouds go rolling by in the
blue color of the sky.”
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| Just gorgeous! |
Perhaps tomorrow, when you once again set out on that
journey to work, you’ll recapture the wonder that sits right outside your car window.
I know that I will…even though shortly it will no longer be…to work:)
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