Lunar Eclipse

My friend Dave told me about the lunar eclipse tonight. I hadn't heard anything about it before this afternoon.

It began while I was working, late, at the office. A parishioner, Courtenay, came running down the hall from an adult class meeting at church tonight and told me to look out the window! The moon had just the beginning of a shadow-smudge across the bottom.

I went out again a few minutes ago, and it looked like the moon had gone to an Ash Wednesday service -- blurred and ashy. And yellowish.

It nice to be reminded to look out beyond my own world. I can get so stuck in things around me, to see things happening in the sky, so strange and so distant, puts things in perspective. Even though I listen to the news almost every day, for some reason, the eclipse got me out of my daily life in a way I haven't for a while. I feel sort of small -- there's a big world, a solar system, a whole universe.

It's a relief.

Sometimes I think it would be enough just to sit in wonder at the whole world, that's there's nothing else God asks of us.