This morning, I accompanied my aged grandmother and still-partly-handicapped uncle to church for the Holy Eucharist.
It was raining when we left home and my grandmother was on her usual complaints of how discouraging it is to go out when the road is wet and full of mud, so there I was appeasing her thoughts again....
But a little after, as the mass started, the sun started to shine and as we went home, it was very bright and sunny outside, with a cool gentle wind blowing about. then, going home afterward, as the trimobile we were in turned to lakandula drive, i was overwhelmed by the sight of a marvelously thick but short-spanning spread of colors in the sky: it was a rainbow that commenced just about at the right foot of lignon hill and ended somewhere a little nearby. i exclaimed upon the sight of it and asked my grandmother if she can see it and she was amazed at how big and low it is.
Then as we entered the interior street that leads to our place, the trimobile had to move to the side of the road to make way for a carabao who was leading a cart, seemingly having come from a delivery of gravel or sand to a neighbor.
we live in the provincial suburbs but i already barely see a carabao these days. almost all of the agricultural fields in our area have been converted into industrial and residential lots so these animals of the field, for me, are just sights i can take pleasure of when i go to the next barangay more distant than ours from the heart of the city.
and as i go home, i shared what i saw to my sisters and i say, these things are simple but they are most beautiful.... that, it's a wonderful feeling when in the ordinariness of your everyday, you come across something or someone, and it makes you remember that somebody DID CREATE THE WORLD BEAUTIFULLY, only, we sometimes preoccupy ourselves with unnecessary things to do and to worry about that we don't often get to have the time to pause and appreciate what has been given us.
i am grateful i just had that chance^^,
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