Moon: Full Circle
This post is about the moon being the first thing I identified as God telling us about Himself.
As a young person, I loved to see the beauty of the Moon. It looked like a luminous pearl up in the sky.
At some point , I started to understand and appreciate how wonderful it is that the moon, which is smaller than the Earth, can look to us to be the same size as the sun, which is so far and so huge. It didn't have to be that way. It could have been that the moon was smaller or, or the sun could have been larger. But No! They appear delightfully and transcendently equal in size.
Also, when Earth's scientific community sent out machine explorers to learn of other planets and their moons- and the exploring machines sent back pictures- we all saw the pictures of Uranus' moons, which were not uniform and beautiful like our moon. I said to myself (and God, and others, I hope) "it didn't have to be this way! We could have had a moon that did it's job as tide- maker, etc. without being beautiful. But God made it exceedingly beautiful!" -Such a contrast to the other moons in our solar system.
And then this year we had, in Texas and other places, an extended complete "blood moon" lunar eclipse. When I saw the moon without its stunning pure, intense, white illumination from the sun, lit only by the scattered light reaching it from earth and space dust, that moon looked so earth-bound and plain (like a wad of chewed up chewing gum?) with all its pinkish gray color and the nonuniformities visible in the subdued light of that eclipse, I said to myself, "hurry back sun illumination. I don't like this less beautiful picture of the moon." So I learned then that part of the moon's beauty was its brilliant lighting by the sun. God is good! Thanks be to God! Glory to God!
