Living Room

Living room. Hmm…
A room that’s for living?
A room that’s alive?
Our living room is both:
a place we hang out together,
a place where objects are alive with memories of their own lives.
The God in which I believe is also known as “The Living God,”
even though unseen,
even though, by many, unfelt.
God’s existence is often put to question, and although I understand why, this has not been part of my spiritual journey.
For me, God is like my living room:
a place where I want to spend time,
a place where I am more alive,
a place that can always embrace one more…

Photos © Sondra Sula.

Take a walk with me by reading my daily devotional book, Meditations on Mendocino by Sondra Sula. Available on Amazon in paperback or Kindle versions.

If you’d prefer a daily river walk, Reflections on the Fox River and Beyond by Sondra Sula, might just be the book for you.

What Death Reveals

“Final Sleep” by Sondra Sula

It’s inevitable—while I’m on my gratefulness walks I come across animals that have met their demise. I’ve come to see them as a natural part of a cycle. I may still shed a tear, and I always pray that they have fulfilled their life’s purpose, and have lived and died without pain. I know these prayers are retroactive in our human concept of horizontal time, but I believe in vertical time, God time, or the eternal now, in which a prayer can work forward or backward.

“Dramatic Death Poses” by Sondra Sula

When I see a dead creature I can observe it more closely. I can see individually striped hairs on fur, nearly transparent claws, or the pattern of a bird’s leg. I can see the sensual shape of a bone, the complexity of an exoskeleton, the ringed lines encircling a worm.

“Questioning Death” by Sondra Sula

When I look into the intricate design inherent in fauna, I see beauty magnified exponentially. I see a grand pattern that incorporates within it the cycle of life, which includes death.

“The Details of Death” by Sondra Sula