sunrise.

There is just something about a sunrise that gets me. 

I love those precious moments before the sun rises over the horizon - all you see is the yellow-orange life it is bringing to the world. It reflects off the glass on the tall buildings. It peeks through the leaves and flowers. It fills crevices and corners of the world that I never even realized existed. And it holds a promise that warms my heart:

{ yes, today is a new day & yes, everything is going to be okay. }

Sometimes I just need a new day. A fresh start. A clean slate. Even one as small as the hours between falling into slumber and waking again. Sometimes, the soul just needs to know that everything is going to be okay. That tomorrow holds enough worries of its own. That yesterdays troubles can't be changed anyways. That His mercies are new every morning. That today, this day, is a new day. I can live in this day, this here & now, this moment and trust: everything is going to be okay. That no matter how exhausted or spent or frazzled or drained I am - tomorrow a sunrise will light up the sky and I get the chance to begin again.

{ pictured above: one of my favorite sunrises to date. Grand Canyon. January 1st, 2011. }