Chasing The Sun

I raised the window shade at my seat and peered into the dark sky. It was 3:10am and the noisy aircraft was dark and quiet inside. My honorary traveling daughter was seated somewhere else in this rig, and I had all the sleep I was going to get tonight so I played a word game on my phone while occasionally glancing out the window wondering where Waldo might be. Is he still missing?

I went back to my game when a few minutes later, out of the corner of my eye, I felt a glimpse of a new day breaking. And just like that, in a matter of 10 minutes, the sky began to give way to colors belonging only to the dawn of day. I hurriedly switched my phone to the camera option and tried to capture each changing second for all the world to see, but sadly my phone is no match for my eyes and those tell tale seconds will belong only to my memory.

Finally, the clouds below were visible and to me they looked like pillows of cotton, lying in heaps and heaps as if freshly shorn from a million sheep. We were chasing the daylight at 3:40 am, and second by second the terrain changed from my window view.  As if the ground was only 50 ft below, I stared out the window at the changing clouds and imagined every view from a lake to a snow capped mountain range to a farmers pattern of crops covering acres of land as far as the eye could see.  Excitedly we were chasing after the sun to start this new day and I visualized all the ways we would spend the next 24 hours when we got to our destination. For some reason, my thoughts briefly turned to Dorian and the obliteration lying in it's aftermath over the Bahama Islands and the only thing I could offer was a whispered prayer to my Creator who surely seemed to be only feet away.

Suddenly the clouds below began to shift and sway, some seeming to ride along with us as if escorting this bird to Iceland, while revealing layers of clouds beneath reminding me just how far off the ground we were. 

At 4:01am, it's daylight out there and I can't wait to get this day started. It's sunny from my position and I hope you are seeing the same. You have a new 24 hours in front of you, just as the Creator planned. In my daily life, I chase after The Son, who brings me peace beyond understanding and guides me through the most trivial moments and the most difficult decisions I need to make. He is reaching out His hand to you, too.

Who are you chasing today?