Rise and Shine!

It's been awhile since I've written to you.

The words on my tongue just haven't seemed good enough lately.

It's as though the connectors in my mind have decided only to relay the facts and the rivers flowing through my heart only carry emotion.

But the two have not met.

The facts stay facts and the emotions stay perched on their lofty cloud.

You created my mind and you designed my heart.
You made me want to craft beautiful phrases using exotic words.
You wanted me to be tickled by the mere sight of a chipmunk.
You made me crave warm hugs; hugs that I get lost in and cannot see past.
You designed me for intimacy with you.
You made my soul sensitive to slight breezes and cloudy, white whispers.
You knew, before I first discovered it, the solitude that I crave in the midst of your creation.
You knew that no matter how old I grew,
no matter how much my innocence was plucked from me,
no matter how hardened I might become...
a blue sky, a crisp river, and some dirt under my finger nails would always be the way you spoke to my soul.
Words of such deep love and fierce desire to hold me even closer.

The little girl who so fiercely proclaimed your glory through her admiration of your creation has awoken again!
Her nap lasted a bit too long, but she is here again and ready to lap up your love in the waves of your oceans.
She is ready to draw hearts in the mud and name the beetles on the tree trunk supporting her nimble frame.
She is ready to dive into your waters without a life jacket!
She has missed the taste of salt water and the chill across her skin that only a gust of your breath can produce.
She craves the look you give her when you send lightning bugs to sit on her nose and she craves the touch of sun through which you send your kiss.
She craves every part of you through every part of your creation.

She has awoken and she is ready;
ready to be overwhelmed by the hurricane of brilliant love you have designed for her to be swept up in!