A couple of nights ago I observed the waxing crescent moon high in the sky shortly after sunset. I was thrilled again, as I always am, really to see that illuminated heavenly body. Until a few years ago, I had admired the golden object that I’ve seen ever since I was a child, but it never did inspire the rhapsodic description that a friend was then giving me. “Yes, yes, I see it,” I said, and then in one incredible moment, I did really see it. The moon was no longer just a shiny crescent with a faint outline completing the circle, but a huge ball suspended in the sky. I was enthralled! In all my life, I had never before seen our moon as the sphere that it is, sunshine creeping over one rounded edge while faint earthshine barely lights the rest of the surface. The third dimension suddenly was visible to me. Perhaps everyone sees it, but I had not until that magical moment. When in its particular phases, the moon appears to me now not as a disk, beautiful but as flat as a coin. It is a full-orbed wonder in the night sky, and I am filled with awe.
No wonder the Psalmist wrote, “When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—the moon and the stars you set in place—what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? (Psalm 8:3, 4) What an awesome creation! What an awesome God!
I see the moon, and the moon sees me.
God bless the moon, and God bless me.
- by an unknown author
MaryMartha
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Scripture quotation is taken from The Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. United States of America. All rights reserved.
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