thoughts on the news of the day: sunshine

hmmm…..

            Apparently folks in the eastern seaboard are still digging themselves out of a horrendous snow storm; but that hasn’t stopped shoppers there from getting out to explore the after Christmas sales.  It’s sunny today here in Eastern Oklahoma, where I have come to visit my dad and get in a little after Christmas shopping myself.  The selection is not that great in our little country town, so we hit the “big city” every once in a while to take in some restaurants, a good movie and, of course, some shopping. 

            When I was in college in Denton, Texas, I used to go downtown Dallas and visit the Neiman Marcus store.  Even their sale racks were completely out of my price range, so I pretended that it was a museum.  I imagined that everything was just for looking and not for purchasing.  It worked out and I didn’t feel so deprived or intimidated.  The store actually had some very interesting wares and I could spend a whole afternoon there admiring the exquisite merchandise.

            We don’t have to acquire something to appreciate it.  In fact, there are many things, like sunshine, that we can never really contain or control.  I am guessing that the folks back east are wishing right about now that they could bottle up some of our southern sunshine and import it there.  But of course, they can’t.  So once again, we are left with gratitude that today sunshine is ours for the taking.  God is in the heavens and all is well.

            hmmm…..