Breakfast Guest

“Black and blue” usually has a connotation of pain or suffering, but not in the case of the Stellar’s Jay. This beautiful bird stopped by for breakfast the other day, just outside my window. He seemed to enjoy the breadcrumbs, ate his fill, gave me a wink, and off he flew. But my day was all the better for having this guest for breakfast. Maybe you won’t have a breakfast guest today, but you will have the opportunity to find at least one object of beauty nearby, take time to be with it in thought or thankful prayer, sit quietly in memories. Might be an object on a shelf, a view from your window, the face of a friend in your memory. Look around. You live in wonder. You are wonder embodied. The Stellar’s Jay is just another bird compared to you. Fly today.