Let There Be Light
If the expression “red sky at night, sailor’s delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning” is right, what’s this? There is some truth to that saying, as Jesus points out in Matthew 16: 2-3, He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.” Weather prediction has improved greatly since those days with apps like my locally available AccuWeather, though I’ve found its accuracy to be somewhere around the plus or minus 95% range. Oh, I believe the climate prognosticators do their dead level best to nail such a relative science down yet get it so wrong. I also believe one of God’s favorite jokes must be to mess with them, “Hey, angels! Watch this…” Keeps them humble, I suppose. Before you think too highly of yourself in that regard, you must realize that you likely cannot interpret the signs of the times either.
To find the answer to this image you must turn back further in the Bible than Matthew… much further. Genesis 1:3-5 states, “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.” That had to be astonishing! No light whatsoever, then BOOM! Have you ever thought about that separating “the light from the darkness” bit? That comes as a result of a planet in stable orbit around a star, turning on its axis. There’s more science in that statement than most know.
Charging up Highway 276 toward the Blue Ridge Parkway this particular morning, I was aware of the time, the physics to get there, the nature around me, and the point I wanted to intersect Earth’s orbit at the moment of sunrise… all for naught. The “prognosticators” got it wrong with the supposedly ‘mostly clear morning’ in total overcast. It seems mountain weather is speculative at best. The Sun rose, as it’s prone to do, but I didn’t see it. I felt that the joke wasn’t just on the weatherman this morning. I backtracked on the parkway looking for perhaps a consolation photo.
Rounding the mountain north of Graveyard Fields, the sky opened to this. I hurried to the next overlook, with Looking Glass Mountain nearby, realizing that this was the best joke ever. God, the God of creation in Genesis, the Giver of all good things threw me a bone of something so primordial in its beauty — BOOM! — quite like Genesis. The sky was in constant flux with sunbeams moving and blinking in and out of existence at the will of the wind. Being awestruck is a great way to start the day. I highly recommend it … especially if your camera’s a little heavier as a result.
Let There Be Light
If the expression “red sky at night, sailor’s delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning” is right, what’s this? There is some truth to that saying, as Jesus points out in Matthew 16: 2-3, He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.” Weather prediction has improved greatly since those days with apps like my locally available AccuWeather, though I’ve found its accuracy to be somewhere around the plus or minus 95% range. Oh, I believe the climate prognosticators do their dead level best to nail such a relative science down yet get it so wrong. I also believe one of God’s favorite jokes must be to mess with them, “Hey, angels! Watch this…” Keeps them humble, I suppose. Before you think too highly of yourself in that regard, you must realize that you likely cannot interpret the signs of the times either.
To find the answer to this image you must turn back further in the Bible than Matthew… much further. Genesis 1:3-5 states, “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.” That had to be astonishing! No light whatsoever, then BOOM! Have you ever thought about that separating “the light from the darkness” bit? That comes as a result of a planet in stable orbit around a star, turning on its axis. There’s more science in that statement than most know.
Charging up Highway 276 toward the Blue Ridge Parkway this particular morning, I was aware of the time, the physics to get there, the nature around me, and the point I wanted to intersect Earth’s orbit at the moment of sunrise… all for naught. The “prognosticators” got it wrong with the supposedly ‘mostly clear morning’ in total overcast. It seems mountain weather is speculative at best. The Sun rose, as it’s prone to do, but I didn’t see it. I felt that the joke wasn’t just on the weatherman this morning. I backtracked on the parkway looking for perhaps a consolation photo.
Rounding the mountain north of Graveyard Fields, the sky opened to this. I hurried to the next overlook, with Looking Glass Mountain nearby, realizing that this was the best joke ever. God, the God of creation in Genesis, the Giver of all good things threw me a bone of something so primordial in its beauty — BOOM! — quite like Genesis. The sky was in constant flux with sunbeams moving and blinking in and out of existence at the will of the wind. Being awestruck is a great way to start the day. I highly recommend it … especially if your camera’s a little heavier as a result.