Sun Soaking

Hey, so I've been gone for a while, busy with Holiday hurriedness, getting the parents off to the Philippines, and now coming back down to day to day routine.
So as I get back into the routine of things, and I begin to drive back to work every day I keep seeing the same picture over and over again, and today it looked a lil different. I thought I would share.
As it is winter right now, and so stinking cold!, when I leave for work in the am the ground is frosty and the sun is just barely starting to peak over the tree tops on my right side as I drive up 25 toward Carthage. It feels like it slowly is warming up as the sun tops the trees and shines in my car. There are two big pastures that I pass every morning, and in one is a white horse and the other has tons of cows. Every morning as I pass them I feel so sorry for them, because it really is cold out there, of course it's colder in other places, but it's cold enough for me here!
The white horse always seems to have made his way over to the exact spot in the pasture where the sun hits first. He stands there, not eating, not grazing, not swishing his tail (it's too cold for flies, ah!), he just stands broadside in the sunshine, soaking it in. Don't you know how good it feels to feel the warmth of the sun after being outside in the pasture and the frost and the cold night temperatures all night?!
Then as I come closer to Carthage, the sun is good and up, as I pass the pasture full of cows, and they are doing the same thing, just standing, basting, basking, and soaking up the sunshine, getting warm. I always grin as I see the cows because they look like they are vaporizing. There are always smoke puffs of steam coming off of them, I guess as the sun vaporizes the wet frost on them.
Today as I saw them, I envied their simpleness. How amazing would it be... no, no, no!!! Not to stay in a pasture over night outside in the cold, ugh! NO! How amazing would it be to have nothing else to do but to stand and soak up the Son and eat grass. ha! I know I know it's a crazy thought. But isn't that really what I am to do from day to day. But lately I have been so frustrated with how I get in the way, and I how mess things up, and how I am the one that complicates life. It's my busy schedule, my idolatry, my sins, my selfishness, "my" life and plans, my rebellious will that all gets in the way of what I am here on this earth to do. And of course the world doesn't help any... it's always there to lend a quick hand to get me distracted from my true purpose and the true reality of glorifying God.
What the Lord wants from me and what He offers me really does seem so simple at times... just as simple as standing, being still, soaking in the Son, and letting His grace, warmth, love and light vaporize all my fears, worries, the cares of the world, all my, my, mine, me, mines, ugh! I seem to make things so difficult, and yet His creation, the cows and the horse, seem to be setting me a pretty good example! ha! Oh if I would only "Kiss", and keep it simple stupid!
Just thought I'd share my funny, but oh so true thoughts.
I'm back! :)