Archive for June, 2007

Earlier this year, I made it out to a large wind farm out east of town, for a project I was working on, at sunrise to take some shots and it was beautiful to be out there. At the time, I realized that it would be great to be out there when it was warmer and today, since I was on vacation this week and really gunning for things to renew and refresh me.

So, my day started around 5 a.m. and I made my way out to the wind farm, literally, at the crack of dawn with the intention of doing a quiet time out there. What’s particularly cool about the wind farm is that it is, literally, out in the middle of nowhere. I was able to take about a 2 mile stretch of country road, off of the interstate route, and took another left to give me a nice front row seat for the sunrise.

As I sat there, reading the Bible and waiting for the sunrise, with no one around for miles, I thought about a couple of things. It is facinating that there are so many things that happen in this world, so much visible art, that large goes unwitnessed. Sunrise this morning was beautiful and I never really quite totally appreciated just how much cool things were going on in the sky at that point. There are so many things within creation that speak of the creator and watching the sunrise really spoke volumes of his artistic flair.

The other lesson for me was in watching the sun rise, and looking at periodically during the day and noticing it’s trajectory across the sky and realizing that there are so many things that happen in spite of me. That as a human it’s important to rest, that things will continue and that the same God who sustains a sunrise will keep me through the day.