The New Day

Recently we borrowed a CD of the Kingsingers from my parents. The first song has really struck our fancy (that's for you, Pheebs!). We have listened to it every time we have gotten into the car. Often when we are beginning a new day, but sometimes when the day is coming to a close. It's beautiful. Simple. And a reminder of the fresh start we are granted each time the sun rises anew.

This picture is from our winter backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail. The sun was setting, as we continued to hike in Shenandoah National Park. Although the trip was after a wild ice storm and freezing cold, we remember it as one of our favorite weeks. Everything we did went back to the basics... we needed warmth, food, and water. When those things are in jeopardy, you focus on what really matters. Returning from a trip like always changes your mindset about your daily routines and lifestyle :)

Since I am not so tech-savvy as to be able to give you the sound bites, here are the lyrics:

YOU ARE THE NEW DAY

(sung a capella)

I will love you more than me and more than yesterday

If you can but prove to me

you are the new day

Send the sun in time for dawn

Let the birds all hail the morning

Love of life will urge me say

you are the new day

When I lay me down at night knowing we must pay

Thoughts occur that this night might stay yesterday

Thoughts that we as humans small

could slow worlds and end it all

lie around me where they fall

before the new day

One more day when time is running out for everyone

Like a breath I knew would come

I reach for the new day

Hope is my philosophy

Just needs days in which to be

Love of life means hope for me

borne on a new day

You are the new day

Hope you enjoyed the lyrics! We sure do.