Straight From Heaven

Yesterday morning I went through my usual morning sprint to get out the door.............load up laptop case with papers, check.  Make toast to eat on the way to work, check.  Find iPhone, check.  Diet coke, check.  Purse, check.  Keys, check.  Lock up house, check.........................

But then something extraordinary happened.  As I walked out the door, precariously balancing all of the items in my arms, I saw something wonderful.  Rays of sunlight streaming through the trees of my neighbor's yard.  They looked like the depictions of heaven from the "Children's Stories of the Bible" that I used to read in the waiting room of my childhood doctor.  It was spectacular.  Truly beautiful.

It stopped me in my tracks.  Something that rarely happens.

Though the photo doesn't do it justice, it will at least serve as a memento of that morning when I put everything down, took a deep breath and just enjoyed.