Good Morning My Friends

True friendship doesn’t require a conversation everyday but a deeper sense of knowing that the other person is there – just a call, message or visit away. I have much to be grateful for and true friendship is one of those things.

In taking pictures of sunrises and sharing them with friends over the past few years I hope I have helped folks start their day with a smile and pause to remember the greatness of our magnificent Creator. Today I will begin sharing some of those images here – with you.

Each morning, the dull gray gives way as He pushes the sun toward the horizon, and the tints and hues of every color begin to blend into one perfect light as the full sun suddenly bursts into view. As king of the day, the sun moves majestically across the sky, flooding the earth and every deep valley with glorious light.

Sunrise Lake Ontario, Rochester NY
Sunrise Lake Ontario, Rochester NY July 2024 Photo by Melissa Mahler

The clear, pure light of the morning made me yearn for the truth in my heart, which alone could make me pure and clear as the morning itself and tune my life to the concert pitch of nature around me. And the breeze that blew from the sunrise made me hope in God, who had breathed into my nostrils the breath of life. He had so completely filled me with His breath, mind and Spirit that I would only think His thoughts and live His life. Within His life I had found my own, but now it was eternally glorified.*

In early morning hours

Twixt the night and day

While from the earth the darkness passes

Silently away

Then it’s sweet to talk with God

In your bedroom still

For the coming day and duties

Ask to know His will

Then He’ll lead the way before you

Laying mountains low

Making desert places blossom

Sweetening sorrow’s flow

Do you want a life of triumph

Victory all the way?

Then put God in the beginning

Of each coming day.

L.B. Cowan

*From Streams In The Desert by L.B. Cowan

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