As dawn is spread over the mountains, So there is a great and mighty people There has never been anything like it, Nor will there be again after it To the years of many generations.ДЄ day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations.ДЄ day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.ДЄ day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.ДЄ day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. Nothing like it has been seen before or will ever be seen again.ДЄ day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.ДЄ day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Suddenly, like dawn spreading across the mountains, a great and mighty army appears. It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of thick clouds and deep blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was in ancient times nor ever will be in ages to come. Be thankful for it.A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. There has never been another like it and there never will be another like it. So, I think to myself, вЂњLearn from the past. Now, is when I still my soul and give thanks for all that is good and right in my life. Now, is when I feel the joy of things hoped for as if though they were here already. Right nowвЂ“that is where the treasure is to be found. I may not even be here and I will have wasted today thinking about tomorrow and miss both. When we compare a moment to a past moment, we rob the present and cheapen our memories. All I had to do is trust the Creator and enjoy the moment for all its beauty without comparing it to the past or even to the future. I didnвЂ™t have to be in control and it felt good. I lost track of time, sitting, standing, and lying there between heaven and earth, listening to the sounds of birds, feeling the sun and the breezes, imagining trees were warrior spirits and communicating with a divine being that defies all our expectations and goes beyond all our understandings. There is an old tree that overlooks my вЂњvalley.вЂќ I imagined that it was a guardian, maybe Moses, with the law in his arms, maybe a mother holding her baby, but then, finally, it took shape and I saw a brave, a warrior, ageless and fearless, immortalized in that oddly shaped tree, standing guard over the one time home of his people, standing guard over me.ДЄt that moment there was only then, no past, no future, just the moment. I could hear the rustle of small things in the bushes and trees. I heard a cardinal calling, вЂњpurdy, purdy, purdy.вЂќ Other birds flew about with different calls. I sat on the grass then lay back, letting the sun kiss my face. ItвЂ™s really just a dip in a neighborвЂ™s field with a creek nearby and trees all around. I went out into the field to my вЂњsacred place.вЂќ I call it the Valley of the Crows, because they always gather there. (taken from my hand-written journal April 16, 2000)

There shall never be another dawn