"Nature's first..."

Everyday on my drive South to work I get to see the most amazing sites. Today, however, seemed a little more special.

I recalled this morning how much the book, "The Outsiders" touched me when I read it in school. As well as, the movie when it came out. S.E. Hinton used Robert Frost's poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay". That poem moved me enough that I memorized it (still know it today) and on the day of my cousins funeral, over 22 years ago, I went to be alone during a certain time of the day and prayed and recited the poem in their memory.

I was moved by today's sunrise which made the sky look 'gold' and for the first time EVER I noticed that the tops of the mountains appeared purple. As I looked to the West, I understood where "purple mountain majesties" came from in Katharine Lee Bates' song, "America the Beautiful."


"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

"America the Beautiful"
by Katharine Lee Bates

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

I see GOD every day on my drive, but today........HE just really was there this morning in a very powerful way. HIS golden sky and purple mountains............just as amazing as HE is.