Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ proclaims: "God makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust" (Matthew 5:45 ESV). Jesus uses these words to sh…
Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ proclaims: "God makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust" (Matthew 5:45 ESV). Jesus uses these words to show how much God loves those who stand in opposition to him. It also serves as a reminder of how Christians are to respond to those, we perceive to be evil. That is a part of Scripture that most Christians choose to ignore. In so doing, we add to the darkness in our world.
A few days before yesterday's eclipse, when we first learned that the weather forecast for yesterday in our area included heavy cloud cover, someone asked me: "Why would God do that? We won't have another opportunity like this in our lifetime."
I didn't have an answer to her question. I still don't. I personally don't think the cloud cover was purposefully orchestrated by God to keep me from being able to clearly view the eclipse. It rains on the just and the unjust and the sun shines on the just and the unjust.
The General and I did our best to watch yesterday's eclipse. I put on my special eclipse glasses and immediately took them off. Both the moon and the sun were effectively hidden. I could not see anything through the eclipse glasses.
However, we momentarily experienced the darkness that resulted from the eclipse. The folks standing on the golf course green across from our back yard disappeared in the darkness. In three or four minutes, the light reappeared, and everything was back to normal. There was still a heavy cloud cover, but it was light enough outside to see.
My surprise came later in the day, when friends posted pictures of the eclipse on Facebook. The center picture is one of many that Randy Reynolds in Henly (20 miles away) took that showed the various stages of the moon covering the sun. The picture on the right is one my niece took from her church's parking lot about sixty miles away. The first picture is the one that I took from Blanco America that we under heavy cloud cover.
Okay, truth be told, I was amazed at the vivid imagery in the other pictures I saw and regretted that I didn't have the same view to enjoy. Did I feel cheated? Obviously the thought crossed my mind or I would have expressed the question. In giving it more thought, I didn't feel cheated but I was disappointed.
I did have the thought that cloud cover in Blanco is mostly a joke. We have been in Stage 4 water restrictions for months. Any outdoor watering is expressly prohibited. The probable consequence of doing so, is having the water to your home cut off.
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