A Moment at Sunrise

Slowly I begin to see the little dark forms of the shorebirds darting about at the edges of the puddles left by the receding surf. The tide must be going out. The stars disappeared a little while ago and now the sky begins to softly glow. I watch the ever changing colors in the sky and on the slowly moving waves of the water.  

I am sitting on a beach on this big ball that we call earth that is rotating, with everything around me, at about one thousand miles per hour toward our sun 93,500,000 miles away. In a few minutes I will see the sun begin to peep above the horizon and then quickly grow to become a big red ball. The wet dense atmosphere out over the ocean at the horizon will filtered the sun’s rays so that for a few moments I can look straight at it.  

As I sit here, with my thoughts, watching this magnificent panorama unfolding before me, I am at peace with the world. My worries and the problems in our world at this moment don’t seem too bad here under this big colorful sky. The dark clouds are now moving and now there it is, the sun is sitting on the horizon. It will be there for only a moment. Soon, it will rise and become too bright to look at directly and the array of colors in the sky will be gone. People will start arriving and getting out of their cars to go fishing in the surf. Some of the people that just arrived, I can see, are going for a walk on the beach with their dogs that are running and dancing with joy. 

I am so thankful to have lived to start this new day.