What a tremendous morning. The barometer was off the charts high, the thermometer lower than usual and a glorious sunrise happened. Mount Rainer just a little south of where the sun was coming up. And the mountain had the lens shaped clouds encircling the peak, in other words it was making its own weather. Mist was coming up off the water in the harbor and a huge flock of ducks was in there forced south by the colder weather up north.

I was at my Bible Guys classs at a private home on the harbor. The sun streaming in was too much for us and we had to evacuate to a different location. Life’s a bitch, right? Too much sunshine, not complaining. We studied the 16th chapter of John’s Gospel. It’s all Jesus’s prayer asking his Father’s help for himself, the disciples and the future world. We got through it in an hour but could spend a year of classes on it equally.

Aleppo, Syria is in our prayers. Civilians caught in the space between two opposing forces is a hard one to not get moved by. Let’s please consider opening our wallets and helping out some relief outfit. This is a horrendous thing to happen at Christmas time, well, or anytime. But we are in the giving mood and what better thing to do.

Well I’m sorry sort that I don’t have a pic of all that glorious landscape/seascape this morning. But in my world everything can’t be documented. There are times we must stand in awe and dampen the urge to click a photo, we owe it to ourselves. It’s too precious to be distracted from the beauty that is one of the pathways to God.

Anon, love, Felipe.