Walk Alone

I went walking last Thursday evening, alone, with my mp3player. I walked around campus and watched the colors from the sunset fade to black and the dance of shadow and light across the walkways and plant life. There were other people around, but all of them focused on their destinations or in the middle of a conversation, none of them thinking this time was any different than the daylight beside for the dearth of people crowding them. It made me think of my Humanities class which is all about beauty and its effect on the human soul. Here, the pathways are lit and lined with all manner of trees, flowers, and in some places, art and in the darkness, one can stop and admire the beauty all around in the stone and the life of the environment.
  I turned my mp3player to "A Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" by Debussy and soaked in all the sights of the life in the stillness. My biology 100 professor rattles on about the wonder of life in all of his lectures but it's not something that can be spoken but something to be experienced and felt. If ever you want to feel of God's love, go walking alone in the darkness and breath in the beauty around you and know that He created it.