The much needed rain is falling but it’s a beautiful day to me because I have the sun in my heart. I’m sitting in my reading chair watching nature’s silver tears bring life back to my parched landscape. The sky is a bowl of melted vanilla ice cream swirled with grays and occasional pops of blue sky. The sun is doing her best to throw off her clouds’ coat as Father Sky continuously sketches the rain clouds. I’m reminded this morning of Gene Kelly singing, “I’m singin’ in the rain, just singin’ in the rain. What a glorious feelin’, I’m happy again. I’m laughin’ at clouds so dark up above, the sun’s in my heart…”

Most days I have the sun in my heart, the sun being God and my faith. We can poetically express happiness and feelings of inner joy and warmth as having the sun in our heart or having a song in our heart. The sun is essential for all life on earth and we’re all connected to its warmth.

The sky just smiled and chased all the cigar smoke clouds away as she revealed her beautiful blue self. Father Sky is now sketching big white fluffy clouds, decorating the blue sky with wedding cake clouds. In Psalm 19:1 we read, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”

God wakes the day each morning with a contented sigh of glorious watercolors, greeting the day in a rainbow of colors, each day different in its rendering. Isaiah 60:1 reads, “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.” Biblical scripture compares sunrise to new beginnings. Each morning the sunrise dispels the night’s darkness, the sun rising representing the fresh start of a new day. Just like the sun, Jesus illuminates our spiritual life bringing hope and healing.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s quote about night’s coming is so beautifully written. “The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!” In another quote, Longfellow wrote, “How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!” I love these quotes.

In the evenings God covers us in a gentle twilight as Mother Nature strokes a beautiful sunset with her watercolor brushes. As Lucy Maud Montgomery says, “Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.” In the darkness we know of God’s promise in the coming sunrise. Regardless of what happened yesterday, the sunrise is a gorgeous display of new beginnings with God promising hope and grace and forgiveness. Lamentations 3:22-23 states, “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” 

God’s steadfast love is unwavering and constant. His mercy and his compassion begin anew each morning.

“From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised.” — Psalm 113:3