This mornings Sunrise

My youngest daughter is not a morning person. She has been up before sunrise several times in her life but not fully awake. She has commented many times on the beauty of the sunsets, so I told her that sunrises can be just as beautiful.She asked how did they compare to the beauty of the sunsets?

I suggested that she needed to get up some morning and see for herself. I was surprised this morning to find a note from my daughter asking for me to get her up so that she could see the sunrise. I got her up at the appointed time and she sat in the living room huddled in the blanket and was watching out the east window hoping to get a glimpse of a beautiful sunrise.

The time she had asked me to get her up was probably the official sunrise time, but living in a valley with mountains on four sides of our house, the sun didn't peak over the mountain until about twenty minutes later.

Where she was sitting in the living room, she was facing in the right general direction but a tree in our yard obscured her vision of the sun rising over the mountain. I suggested she needed to move to a different position which she did. Even that was not enough to give her a good view of the rising sun, because the sun is still quite north of our window when it rises.

I finally saw that the view from the kitchen window would provide her more of a view and suggested she watch out that window. She again moved and waited about five minutes longer before the sun arose over the mountain.

She watched the sun come over the mountain. I was in the back room at the time and she went back to bed. I am not sure what she thought as this sunrise wasn't an especially different from other clear day sunrises.

As I she has gone back to bed and I can't ask her right now I can only guess that she might have been disappointed and wondered about my saying that sunrises are and can be as beautiful as sunsets. I wonder how many times I was disappointed in sunrise?

It was a beautiful sunrise this morning with the mountains showing a blush of pink as the first rays rushed to get over the mountain peak. It seemed that the closer the rays got to the top the more golden they became until finally the sun pushed over the mountain.

I think life is a lot like this morning was for my daughter. Someone tells us how beautiful something is and when we arise early anticipating a beautiful sunrise, we find that it wasn't as spectacular as the sunset. The beauty of the Sunrise or Sunset is often times reflective of the beauty within ourselves. I have known many people that could see the face of an angel in a the darkest cloud.

I hope all of your sunrises and sunsets are beautiful and that they don't disappoint. Fiddler on the Roof [30th Anniversary Edition] [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]