This morning I rolled over and my eyes were forced open by a beautiful pink sunrise that stretched across the horizon of my small world. I watched in breathless awe as deeper shades blossomed into wider bands of softer color, like a fragile, dew-kissed rose unfurling its delicate petals. Then the sun sprang forth, dazzling bright and white, and blinded me momentarily. I blinked my eyes and when I opened them again, the pinks were gone and the sky was a brilliant clear blue. How can anyone doubt God’s existence when there is such beauty as this?
Many glorious mornings I have awakened to this beauty. This fact, alone, is one of the reasons I hesitated when putting my home on the market last year. No home available for purchase had this panoramic view afforded by the 9-foot sliding glass door in my bedroom. It opens entirely on the East and exposes, from extreme right to extreme left, the movement of the rising sun and moon in the changing seasons. I do feel God’s presence in that view. When I pray, I do not feel my prayers rise up against the low ceiling, but rather rushing out to that far away Eastern sky. How could I leave that behind?
My bedroom was not always so bright. It contained a standard 32” x64” window, centered on the grey-paneled wall. I thought it dark and depressing and was so sad that my dear husband, whose health was beginning to fail, was forced to spend so much time there. My brother-in-law offered us a used sliding glass patio door, which someone had given to him, and I gratefully accepted it. Of course, we had no deck but who knew what the future would bring. The main thing was that it would lighten and brighten the room, providing a restful view of our sheep eating in the fields. The sunrise turned out to be an unforeseen blessing!
KMJ
Many glorious mornings I have awakened to this beauty. This fact, alone, is one of the reasons I hesitated when putting my home on the market last year. No home available for purchase had this panoramic view afforded by the 9-foot sliding glass door in my bedroom. It opens entirely on the East and exposes, from extreme right to extreme left, the movement of the rising sun and moon in the changing seasons. I do feel God’s presence in that view. When I pray, I do not feel my prayers rise up against the low ceiling, but rather rushing out to that far away Eastern sky. How could I leave that behind?
My bedroom was not always so bright. It contained a standard 32” x64” window, centered on the grey-paneled wall. I thought it dark and depressing and was so sad that my dear husband, whose health was beginning to fail, was forced to spend so much time there. My brother-in-law offered us a used sliding glass patio door, which someone had given to him, and I gratefully accepted it. Of course, we had no deck but who knew what the future would bring. The main thing was that it would lighten and brighten the room, providing a restful view of our sheep eating in the fields. The sunrise turned out to be an unforeseen blessing!
KMJ