The magic of sunsets

My friend took a most beautiful picture of the sunset last night over our magical home Bermuda and posted it online.
When I saw the photograph I thought back to my daughter and I driving home last night and witnessing that magnificent sunset. The red light sometimes snaking red tendrils through the sky almost like they were dancing to time moving on. Other times blanketing parts of the sky making me feel warm and safe. While other times so red it made me nervous then it would shift to a softer red almost pink in hue and then my nervousness would shift to joy to wonderment at the spectacular light show nature was putting on for us as the day was giving way to night leaving us in such a romantic and mesmerising way filling me with hope because no matter what the day brought for me, no matter how many of my expectations and dreams were not met, it was giving way to night – an end yet a beginning in such a way that it was beautiful. Endings don’t always have to be final and in all cases they are not they are just portals to new ways of being.
My daughter and I were oohing and aahing over the setting sun together as we drove home and she said, “It’s going to be a beautiful day tomorrow.”
I said, “How do you know?”
She said, “What’s that saying mommy about if the sky is that colour?”
“Red sky at night shepherd’s delight. Red sky in the morning sailor’s warning,” I said.
Then she said, “Maybe it won’t be then because the sky is pinky red not red,” she said. “But it is so beautiful.”
“Yes I said, it is and we live in a truly beautiful place,” I answered. “I think it will be a beautiful day tomorrow though I agree with you.”
“Yes mommy, look at the red behind the trees,” she said in a magical way sweeping us both into the fairy tale like world we live in. The one we often take for granted because we are too busy to see the magic all around us.
It was then that my friend came into my head and I knew she would be out on her balcony snapping a picture of this wonder of nature and she did and I knew I had to write something to remind myself and everyone else that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it is available for us to see every single day if we would only take the time to stop and appreciate it and say thank you for its presence. How our outlooks would change, our view on the world would shift from a constant state of negativity to hope and just maybe we would understand that there is something for all of us because the universe has so much to offer. And just maybe we would understand that we are constantly changing and evolving and ending and beginning and sometimes we have to experience pain to get to the next stage but we do not have to give up in the process. Instead we just have to have faith that the sun will come back to us. It never leaves we just move away from it for the night but move back to it on our new day.
Thank you my friend for posting your photo reminding me to give thanks and to never give up – to always have faith and to always believe in magic and fairytales.