Sunrise sky with Moon setting!
These were taken out of my bedroom window as I pulled the curtains back this morning!
It brought to mind the first lines of an old hymn I haven't thought of for years:
When morning gilds the skies
my heart awakening cries:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
It's wonderful how songs seem to stay in the memory bank and pop out at significant times.
If you are interested in the whole hymn here are four verses. (One site gives 12 verses!!) The original was composed in German in 1744 and later translated into English:
When
morning gilds the skies
my
heart awakening cries:
May
Jesus Christ be praised!
Alike
at work and prayer,
to
Jesus I repair:
May
Jesus Christ be praised!
The
night becomes as day
when
from the heart we say:
May
Jesus Christ be praised!
The
powers of darkness fear
when
this sweet chant they hear:
May
Jesus Christ be praised!
Let
all the earth around
ring
joyous with the sound:
May
Jesus Christ be praised!
In
heaven's eternal bliss
the loveliest
strain is this:
May
Jesus Christ be praised!
Be
this, while life is mine,
my
canticle divine:
May
Jesus Christ be praised!
Be
this th' eternal song
through
all the ages long:
May
Jesus Christ be praised!
