Monday, August 07, 2006

The Sun Rises in God's Country


August 6th Sunrise
Originally uploaded by Matt Callahan.
Thank you Boris for the title! It’s easy to forget where you are and what you’re doing while living the everyday life. Surrounded by concrete and cars, black top and traffic lights. Deadlines, schedules, and days on the calendar. You become so narrowly focused you forget to really look around. The train of life keeps rolling along and you don’t bother to get off. Eventually, you remember to wake up and pull the emergency stop cord. You tell the conductor that you’ve missed your stop and you have to get off this train.

As you stand on the platform and watch the train speed off, you eyes change focus from the sights of everyday and a new surrounding appears. Ordinary is replaced by extraordinary and you remember what is really important in life.

(Yes, it's 3:30am my time as I type this)

3 Comments:

Blogger Luz said...

Very nice post Matt! Nice set of photos as well. No sun ever rises and sets the same way twice but you have to admit that each time it does is perfection--as in God's perfection!

6:22 PM  
Blogger Victor said...

And sometimes things appear more clearly at 3:30 am (not often, in my experience).

Anyway, thanks for the reminder that we all have the ability to stop the train!

4:14 PM  
Blogger Borya said...

I would like to know how the air feels and smells around 3:30a.m. in your place...

1:03 AM  

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