God on the Prairie

Yesterday while driving to North Platte and thinking my thoughts as I do when driving, I found myself taking in the majestic cottonwood, the wise evergreens, the sleeping berry bushes, brown brush, and looking out over what for me is Forever Nebraska. I was filled with awe as though looking at a painting - impossible to paint. My eyes were mesmerized with this wise and surreal prairie. It was lit by a joyous sun- warming -to the land below. The fields appeared surreal- so clean swept they were. The hills that outlined them were likewise smooth haystacks sitting side by side ever quiet. The winding Platte River beside me was hidden by nature's game of hide and seek. It wouldn't have surprised me to see a deer leap high in the air or up over a fence in this land conducive to wildlife. As i drove on I saw a cattle coral-empty-and then amidst  trees there sat a  blue lake-it's icy water's sparkling clean and cold.  Such a  breathtaking view. Going on past fields I looked to the right and there in the distance a train danced slowly along the track. It could have been a toy train traveling down a child's play tracks. Next an old windmill whirring-breezes turning  rusted blades. At that moment  I thought of God. Before me was a blend of  bucolic beauty that those who aren't Nebraskan's might not know. I felt as though I was in heaven when really I was on earth headed for my monthly tysabri infusion. My heart was singing and I began praying to God. It is something I have failed at since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Perhaps I am angry and that has been my way of saying Why? But at that moment there were no whys. "Oh Lord" I prayed, "Keep me clean and pure- as lovely as this prairie where I was born and raised.. I spoke to God for some time-It was just He and I. My spirituality was turned the color of glory and I hoped that as a woman I could emulate the humble gentleness and beauty I saw in the picture that God had set before me. "Oh Lord," I said, "Thank you for this my home...The Nebraska prairie-land that whispers-"This is your home. This will always be your home."