smoke

A strange thing happened today in the valley, at least it was strange to me. In the morning the valley seemed very foggy, however it never lifted. I was talking with the site manager about this and he said it wasn't fog it was smoke. I got a little worried, because it was a lot of smoke. But he explained that it could be one of many possibilites: 1. There is a forrest fire somewhere near the valley and the wind is blowing it in 2. It could be smoke from wildfires as far as away as California 3. Or it could be wildfires from some other far off place. I thought it was very interesting that most of the time when there is a big fire to the west of our valley, the smoke finds its way there and just hangs in the valley for a couple days. The down side: we can no longer see Pike's Peak let alone the mountains on the other side of the valley. The up side: spectacular sunrises! You may be thinking why the heck am I up at sunrise. Well, it is simple really. My bedroom window faces east (the direction the sun rises, just in case you forgot), and my room is bathed in the colors of the sunrise each morning and it is just enough light to wake me up. I am usually able to fall back asleep, thank you! But sometimes it is so peaceful. Sometimes my room is a dark yellow or orange, but this morning it was pink! Some of you may know that I am not a huge fan of pink, but this was incredible. It is really easy to be in tune with the Creator when I get to see masterpieces such as this each morning. I wish staying in tune with Him was as easy, but I will take what I can get. It really makes me see the truth in Lamentations 3:22-23, "Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." I knew with this morning's sunrise something life-changing was going to happen, and it did. Not it wasn't the bulls eye I made this afternoon at the archery range, it was a hard decision that lifted a heavy weight off my shoulders. And I am sure there will be an amazing sunrise tomorrow to wake me up and affirm that God is with me and God is for me.