An African Entry (6-17)

Waking up in the dark can be quite the frustrating thing. But when you wake up 15 minutes before the sun starts coming up, it can change your world. Going from darkness to light is fabulous in itself, but going from dark unfamiliarity to the most beautiful scene you’ve ever seen is another.
I’d been listening to odd sounds outside for the longest time before I could even see anything. But such odd sounds are just confusing when you aren’t sure what they are. Turns out, they made a beautiful scene to look at equally beautiful to listen to once you figure out that the odd sounds are being made by all manner of birds and antelope in a rainbow of colors.
About 15 minutes after I woke up in the dark I started to see some light in the tiny crack between the window frame and the shade. Five minutes later I realized it was the sun rising up in golden yellows and oranges from behind a mountain. Yes, even in the three inch crack I was looking out at the world through I could see a mountain.
Eventually the other three got up one after another because I had such a desire to get outside and take pictures that when one woke up, I made sure to mention the amazingness of the tiny bit I could see. Needless to say, I got everyone up quickly.
Opening the door to such a scene is incredible. A sunrise in the mountains is indescribably beautiful. You’d have to see it to understand. Pictures certainly can’t capture it despite how hard I tried. Especially a sunrise in African mountains.
This mission base is probably in THE best place it could possibly be. Right behind our cabins is a mountain. This mountain (called Mount Everest actually) made for the best part of the sunrise to me. At one point the sun hit it just right so that it lit the mountain up a gorgeous golden brown color RIGHT as a FULL rainbow appeared that just so happened to completely shroud the mountain: it started just to the left of the mountain, went right over the top, and ended to the right side.
A perfect scene.
Essentially, we woke up this morning to God saying
Welcome to Africa!