Not exactly the kind of sign I was looking for
Yesterday, I decided to start hiking/running every day. I live near an absolutely world class park, and there’s no excuse not to take advantage of that.
The views are gorgeous, you rarely see anyone else, and there is no sound except the occassional gust of ocean breeze or the stray lizard scurrying away. In such a setting, it’s only natural to get contemplative, and so I started doing something that I probably don’t do enough of – praying.
I’m just walking and talking, about my family and our situation and my career and everything we’ve been through and all the people I love and what they need. I make a statement that I can be as patient and strong as I need to be if it means I’m becoming a better person – and that those around me are being helped. And I say that I just ask that along the way, when things are difficult and dark, that there be some signs that we’re not all alone, that things will be getting better.
At this point, I’ve stopped, and I’m staring off into a forested area, taking in the silence, the beauty of it all. Just kind of waiting, like the world has stopped and I’m having a tiny little moment with something much bigger than myself.
I ask that I be aware enough to see the signs.
Then, the silence is broken. A yell, “Horse coming!”
I turn to see:
A very voluptuous woman, covered in tattoos, riding a horse. And wearing a tiny string bikini. She nods at me politely as her steed walks by. I nod back, of course.
So, to those of you who are perhaps more spiritually sensitive then myself, I ask. What exactly could such a sign foretell?
It is clearly a sign that I need to start accompanying you on your hikes.
Well, what are you going to wear? There’s a lot of competition out there these days.
It means that if you don’t have your eyes and ears open for the sign, the sign may just run you over – or even worse, right by you – and you’d miss the beautiful, but strange wonder of it and think that you were all alone!!
or it literally could mean that there is a horse coming.
that’s really funny, btw!
Funny! Be ready for anything, Jase.
It means that everything looks like a sign when you’re looking for signs.
That or it’s time for you to get a tattoo.
that is hilarious!
Hey, maybe it means that if God can be a folksy African-American woman in The Shack, he can be a voluptuous horse-riding woman in California.
Or not.
maybe it’s a sign to keep your sense of humor, even on the path of uncertainty:) that is so funny!!!!!
” And Lo, there shall be a large breasted woman on a great steed. Her skin shall be marked with the sign of beast and she will come riding with a great shout”. Surely the end is near.
REPENT FOR THE END IS NEEEEEEAARRRR!
I cracked myself up with that one.
hahahaha…Ya cracked me up too mers.
I love Darby’s comment.
I really love your perceptions of nature; might add that your voluptuous lady on horseback, replete with largely uninterrupted (string bikini) skin art is, after all, a part of nature (ain’t we all?) and mebbe not a particular sign (like Mike commented about everything looking like a sign when you’re looking for signs). If you enjoy celebrating nature and the joys of positive perception thereof, I invite you to the website for my newly-published volume of poetry celebrating the same thing ~ Live, From the Mystic. The website is http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/LiveFromtheMystic.html