Today I woke up at 5:30 am to make it to a skype date with my dad. Now, I've become more of an early riser since I've been here, the heat chases me out of bed by 8 even on days I can sleep in, but 5:30 is no laughing matter. I headed to the bathroom to take a freezing cold shower. Not having hot water doesn't really matter at 6:30 when its starting to heat up, but a 5:30 cold shower is no way to start a day.
But then, I looked out the window. For the first time in Cambodia, I saw the sunrise. And I've never seen anything like it. If I hadn't been standing their in a towel, I definitely would have ran for my camera. The whole sky was pink and bright and gorgeous. As I sat there staring, I started thinking that no one is even watching this amazing show. People are just begrudgingly getting out of bed, getting kids ready for school, thinking about what they need to buy at the market. . . all this extravagant beauty is a forgotten background to busy lives. How amazing is it that God spends so much time creating beautiful things that people do not even notice?
There is a God so good, so big, so beautiful that He cares about the little things in our lives. Even what to us is only background noise. For me, today's sunrise shouted "the world may be fallen and broken, but all of nature is longing for and looking forward to that day when all will be restored, all will be made new, and the world and its people will be free of pain, pollution, and violence."
So it turns out that 5:30 isn't always a miserable time to wake up. And skyping with my dad was wonderful too : )
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