Sunrise

The other day while driving somewhere I was listening to Paul Harvey as he descibed a natural phenomenon that very few witness. At the end of this almost supernatural description he announced that it was a sunrise that was described. I have watched only a few sunrises in my life, not because I am not up before sunrise, (one time I even paid $ to watch a sunrise on top of a mountain peak on Maui) but because I am not patient enough to sit and watch. But this description was above and beyond anything I had ever witnessed in a sunrise. It was very spiritual in nature. I have looked online since then to find a copy of that, but to no avail. So this morning as I arose and noticed that the sun had not peaked over the mountains yet, I decided to sit at my front window and just watch it. As I sat there I tried to conjure up the words that would best describe it (but, I am not a writer or a painter to describe it's beauty). I did find these words by Lore C. Dunn which described a little of what I saw. "The sky was ablaze as the billowing clouds caught the sun's first light." This happened several times throughout the 30 minutes that I sat there and watched. Paul Harvey said something about a vortex and splintering diamonds of color and a spiritual feeling that came over people just before the sun peeked over the horizon. I wanted to see and feel that, but as Loren C. Dunn said every sunrise might bring different views as they unfold . He also likens each different sunrise to each different day with its own mysteries and surprises.

I will pay more attention to the beauties of the world we live in that God has created for us to bring us joy. Life is too short to not enjoy the simple things.