One of Joan's and my top five favorite musicals is Fiddler on the Roof (#1, hands down, is Les Miserables!) and we love the song Sunrise, Sunset. I find it sad, however, that we live in a culture where far too many of us never notice either when the sun rises nor when it sets. Many sleep right through the sunrises, and there's nothing inherently wrong with "sleeping in" unless we do it so consistently for our entire lives that, in the process, we miss out on a lifetime of beautiful sunrises. And most of us are simply "too busy" (even though busy might be defined for many as watching television) to see the beauty of sunsets.
Not so with my friend Cary Branscum. Cary takes some of the most gorgeous photographs of sunsets I have ever seen and shares them with the world on Facebook. He takes them with his i-phone camera while on his daily walks. They look professionally done. But that's what God-designed beauty does for each of us, doesn't it?- It makes us all look good. When I asked Cary about these beauties, he said, "You know, the sad thing is that so much of the time, we allow the "stuff" of life to prevent us from seeing- really seeing- all of the beauty God has designed and placed all around us to enjoy." I think Cary is right. So...next time it gets to be sunset time, "Be still and know...."
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