My husband and I were traveling through Nepal. We'd heard wonderful things about sunrises over the Himalayas and wanted to see one. So we got up when it was still dark and rode for an hour to a place high in the mountains. And waited. It turned out that clouds ruined the show that day, but something else was in store for us. As darkness gradually yielded to light, we could see the large green valley below, with a few Buddhist monasteries scattered through expansive fields—all set against the backdrop of gorgeous snow-covered mountains. It was a wonderful scene. But then a mist rose from the fields and covered the whole ground below us, until we could only see the mountains above the mist.
As a lifelong city dweller, I'd always thought of mist as being a kind of cloud, and clouds are formed in the sky. To see the mist coming up from the fields was something new for me. It reminded me of the statement from the second chapter of Genesis in the Bible, where it says, "There went up a mist from the earth." Gen. 2:6. I'd never realized that this description could be technically correct.
The mist described in Genesis actually separates two different accounts of creation. In the first, God creates everything by His Word and sees it as "very good." Gen. 1:31. In the second, the Lord God forms man from "the dust of the ground," Gen.2:7. and all sorts of evils ensue. This latter account occurs after the mist develops.
