When Creatures Engage

It was one of those rare sunrise moments, when those white winged wizards, those oceanfront Sea Gulls, dared outside of their protective limits, taking risks to check out an offering from my oldest daughter and yawning grandkids. It must have been more than hunger that powered the Gulls' recklessness.

Maybe they saw an opportune adventure to momentarily engage with one of their predators, a human, who appeared to be charitable. Some people claim to see a spark of God's spirit in creatures during moments like this. Like witnessing one of God's ideas of grace in disguise. All of life is poetry. We are some of the metaphors - searching for our own implicit analogies - as here, along the western edge of the massive Atlantic tablecloth, stretched flat and wide. Under the light. Good morning.