Dear Reader:

Saturday morning (following the freeze Friday night) sunlight, filtering through the windows, woke me from my sleep. It was round 7:00 and the sun was just coming up. For me this is the “magic hour” to take pictures.

I threw on “old pinkie” my heavy bunny-rabbit looking robe (definitely tattered and “thread bare” from loving usage.) I started walking around the back yard -so I wouldn’t scare the neighbors by doing so in the front.

I glanced back at the deck…steam was rising off the outdoor heating unit. As I stared at it…I thought to myself…it looks like the shape of a cartoon dragon being released from a magical lamp.

I chuckled to myself and  continued looking for spots where the rising sun was turning the mundane into something more…something magical…like the frosted empty lot next door…or the newest little angel placed by the fourth grandchild’s tree…waiting behind the veil of sunshine and shadows.

As I turned away from our littlest angel…I spotted a recent garden plaque I had added to the garden and it pretty much summed up my feelings on a frosty March morning.

Little did I know that a beauty delight and two God Winks awaited me inside.

The first was “Big Red”…my geranium that is still feeble from a deep freeze disaster several weeks ago. The covering I placed on it blew off and “Big Red” lost most of its limbs…leaving only one major stem left.I have faithfully lugged that plant back and forth-inside and out-to try to save the heart of it.

I was warming up in the Happy Room (coming in from the garden) when the sunlight hit the inside of the front door where “Big Red” was sitting. It was then I saw it…a cluster of buds on the tip tip top and one was just starting to show some color. It took my breath away with its beauty.

Hope. It comes in all forms and shapes…but for me this particular morning…my ever faithful, persevering “Big Red”… was re-defining the word by showing me that it wasn’t giving up on life. How I love my loyal “foliage friend”!

So many mysteries in life…so I decided that the blog would deal with mysteries in some shape or form. I decided to go on the internet and looks for thoughts and ideas on life’s mysteries. Two quotes jumped right out at me…two God Winks.

The first stated what I had just discovered….finding magic in the mundane…the “obvious” left unseen.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

It was the second quote (Big Wink!) that uncovered the connection I was looking for…and it did it using a dragon…of all things.

“No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver

Double Wow! I had just lived that quote. Chills went down my back and I re-read it several times….three words kept popping out...magic, mystery, and faith!

Without magic, there is no mystery, and without mystery there is no faith!  A Big “A-Ha” moment!

Isn’t faith filled with mystery? The mystery of the unknown, the mystery of not knowing… but still believing?

Life is a mystery and our greatest tool for solving it is called faith. God gave us imagination to see beyond the laws of reality. It is not to be left behind in childhood but continued in adulthood blending and changing into faith.

It is faith that frees us from the visual restrictions of reality into the limitless world of unseen possibilities.

Faith is the “sixth” sense given to man after seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting concludes. Faith is the special “feeling” that over-rides the five physical gifts from God. It is the “knowing ” sense of God’s presence…the sixth and spiritual sense of the Creator in our lives.

So until tomorrow Father…Open our eyes to better see you, our ears to hear you, our hands to touch you, our smell of roses to “scent” you, and sugar cookies to taste you. Lastly, open our heart and soul to believe in the greatest mystery of all…Your on-going faith in us and our faith into the unknown.

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the Pooh

* When I stopped by Anne’s to drop off something Sunday…it was like a “field of dreams” awaited me….the whole front and side yard were blooming with daffodils….(if I hadn’t thought the neighbors would call the guys with the big nets) I could have danced with the daffodils,too!

…“And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”