Today is Wednesday, August 6th, 2008; Karen's Korner #1373

When I got up this morning and looked out our east upstairs window, I couldn't believe the colors of the sunrise! How can you describe such beauty!
 
There were yellows, golds, pinks, and reds, as the sun was trying to peak out of several whispy clouds of various shades of blues. I had to go outside to take a better look.
 
It reminded me of something a number of years ago, that 'Grandpa Archerd' said once at an Easter sunrise service which was set that year in our local football stadium. Leslie Archerd was an attorney in our county for more than 70 years, a Sunday School teacher for probably as many years, and well-respected by nearly everyone he met. So well thought of my husband, Jim's middle name is Leslie. The Welds were only clients, not friends nor relatives.
 
That special Easter morning, Grandpa Archerd had been asked to give the Easter message, in spite of his advancing years into his early nineties. He had agreed. I can't remember what he said that morning, but only his first statement, as we viewed the beautiful morning together, "If the sunrise is this beautiful this side of heaven, I can't wait to see what it looks like from the other side!"
 
"This is the day which the Lord has made,
let us rejoice and be glad in it."
~ Psalm 118:24 (RVS)

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