{"id":26453,"date":"2017-11-25T01:07:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T01:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26453"},"modified":"2017-11-25T01:41:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T01:41:41","slug":"here-is-gods-gift-to-the-high-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26453","title":{"rendered":"Here is God’s gift to the High Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You don’t see any mountainous splendor in this picture.<\/p>\n

Instead, you see flat land. You also see a very large sky that seems to be on fire. Those of us who live on the High Plains of Texas got to see this sunset on Black Friday, 2017.<\/p>\n

Not a bad way to end the day, if you ask me.<\/p>\n

I didn’t take this picture. I did snap a picture of the sunset, but this image comes from a social media acquaintance, Bill Bandy, a fellow Amarillo resident.<\/p>\n

I want to share a view with you that I’ve had for as long as my wife and I have lived on the High Plains. It is that God Almighty has a way of paying us back for deciding to put those tall mountains and tall timber in other regions of the country.<\/p>\n

My wife and I returned recently from a 4,200-plus-mile journey out west, where we got our full measure of nature’s splendor. The Rockies, the Cascades, the Sierra Nevada — along with the endless stands of tall timber we saw in the Pacific Northwest — all provided plenty of stunning landscapes for us to ogle on our journey to Oregon and back.<\/p>\n

We don’t have that kind of scenic splendor out here on the Caprock. We do, though, have a sky that won’t quit. I have said before on this blog that whoever hung the “Big Sky” label on Montana never laid eyes on the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n

The sky is the Almighty’s way of telling us: I get that I didn’t bless you with terrestrial grandeur, but I hope you appreciate the sunsets — and the sunrises — I am able to provide.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, I do. I’m quite sure we all do.<\/p>\n\n

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