Take a deep breath!

What a beautiful day! January in El Paso...sunny, 56 degrees (F), no wind... Wow, these are the days that make me love the desert! Well, actually, I love the desert no matter the weather, even the wind. It is the kind of day, though, that makes me happy to be alive.

I watch my big, gray cat rolling around in the sun-warmed dirt outside and wish for a moment that I was a cat. I watch my little white dog running around excitedly sniffing in and around the mounds covering our three acres and think what fun it must be to be a dog!

Mostly, though, I'm happy to be breathing in and out on this day, another day God has granted me life, and I wish time would slow down somehow...

Surely that must be a little of what heaven is like...finally able to truly just enjoy existence...no restraints of time...no aging, groaning, aching, moaning...no pressure, no deadlines, no negativity...

A fat, gray cat rolling around in the sun-warmed dirt...!


c2010 Lorenda Houston