Vitamin Sun

Yesterday, I awoke to see the sun tinging the pink skeins of clouds that decorated the sky outside my bedroom window. I watched as it fell in layers across the mountains during the busy morning. I thought of its disinfecting capabilities as I changed child after child into fresh, un-wet outfis. And I blessed its ability to remove sickness as I made up the guest bed my parents will enjoy, using the down comfortor with which I have been sleeping.

Sun gets a bad rap, after all: It causes cancer and age spots and freckles and moles. It brings sunburn and heat stroke and drought and radiation. But doesn't it bring good things, as well? Things like warmth after rain, and that steam that rises from the earth the next day. Things like rainbows, and the blush coloring on certain apples, and those beautiful shafts of light that look like megaphones straight from heaven. For me, the sun yesterday was a reminder of life, of hope, and of the outside world. It felt good to drive around town, running errands, and step out of the van into a mellow, warm-feeling world. For so long I've felt blank and cold - probably because I've been sick. And so it was pure joy to soak up the sunshine on an otherwise typical Saturday.

Thank You, God, for Vitamin Sun. I'll enjoy it each day it shines all through the winter and fall.