Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and may I say innocence, with Nature herself. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854.
Not sure how you approach the morning, but let me share mornings from where I watch. I’ve seen sunrise in New Mexico that just confidently welcome the day. A bright array of colors starts slowly peeking over the horizon. It is such a spectacle of visual elements that missing it would seemingly deprive you of the blessings from God.
Sunrise in New Mexico on November 29, 2024 was one that just made me see even more evidence of the start of the day. The series of events that must occur. Surely this can be our best invitation to welcome and start the day.
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
As the day begins anew with the rising of the sun, and the setting of the moon, there should be, I believe, a likened event where each day is a new opportunity, I could easily dwell on the past; what worked, what didn’t, opportunities taken, and missed. As a Christian, my focus should not be my past, but my present – what am I doing now. Not what I plan to do later.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854.
We know that daybreak occurs. Ready or not, the sun also rises. To wake each day, to reawake day after day; as the sun rises so to do we.
( Sunset follows in the next post )
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