Be Patient. The Sun (Son) Will Come.

DH and I are currently visiting DD3 for the first time in her somewhat new to her home that she bought last fall.  The trip has been planned and delayed several times in the past few months, and we are grateful to be here with her and enjoy her hospitality in her new home, and hopefully help out just a little bit with some of the renovations she is making. 

This morning I woke just after 4 am and couldn't get back to sleep.  This is quite unusual for me, a confirmed night owl who usually has quite a bit of trouble dragging myself away from dreamland and out of bed in the mornings.  It could be the change in time zones and disrupted schedule, or perhaps the different bed, but no matter.  It is what it is.   After trying unsuccessfully for an hour or so to go back to sleep, I accepted the fact that a return to sleep wasn't happening, and enjoyed the beautiful views of the night sky, the stars so clear up here at a higher elevation and away from the city lights. There was a wonderful view of Orion to enjoy for a while, and then some reading to catch up on the phone.  

Slowly the sky began to lighten and I was able to enjoy the gradual lightening of the sky and the slow-moving sunrise as DH got up and showered and prepared to start the day.  I decided to document the sunrise with the quite inadequate phone camera and my inadequate photography skills, including the reflection of the camera flash on the window.

I found myself getting impatient with how slow the sun was coming, but eventually, the sun did peak over the horizon.  And to my surprise, it didn't make its appearance in the lower spot of the horizon between the mountain peaks where I had seen the most light in the beginning, but it appeared over the higher mountain peak to the right.  At last, my patience has been rewarded.  The new day has begun.

For many right now, the world seems a dark place, and we are searching for light, truth, and hope.  The prophets and scriptures promise that someday Jesus Christ will come again and bring light and truth and peace to our troubled world.  Be patient.  Hold on.  No one knows exactly where or when, but I know that new day will come.