There's a giant Ferris wheel on the waterfront in Seattle. I snapped a picture of it last time I was there.
At night it lights up the sky, bold and brilliant in deep shades of purple and blue.
It spins slowly, giving its riders a view they'll never forget.
A view of the city skyline and the waterfront, with its restaurants, bars and museums lit up along the pier.
The view changes as they spin. There's so much to see on all sides.
Like the way we spin through life.
Each of us in our individual seats. Some alone, some in pairs or families.
Surrounded by other people spinning through their own lives. A multitude of perspectives and challenges coexisting in the same space.
Sometimes we spin at a frenetic pace, and sometimes slow and easy.
And every once in awhile, the spinning stops and we get stuck at the top. Unable to move forward or back.
What do we do then?
We have a few choices.
We can let fear overtake us. Dwell in the negative thought that there's nowhere we can go. That we are stuck, that only bad things are in store for us.
Or...
We can pause, take in a deep breath, and look around us.
Really look around.
Take in the views of the city we live in, the bright lights, the landscape that we know so well yet sometimes take for granted.
We can reflect on what we've learned in this place and the lessons that have shaped us.
And we can take a few moments to think about how we are just a tiny piece of this big, beautiful world. And how grateful we are to live in it.
I'd love to ride on that ferris wheel someday.
Not just because Seattle is one of my favorite places in the entire world. Or because purple is my favorite color.
But also because that spinning wheel reminds me that we don't know many more times we'll get to ride on this earth as it spins around the sun.
If I'm lucky? Another forty.
But maybe it's only twenty, or ten.
Or less than that...
Every day I have left to spin through life is precious.
And so is the view from the top.
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