Total eclipse of the moon


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6411991.stm

All we need is for the rain to stop and the clouds to clear.

Pat took the kids biking in the local park yesterday - there's one of these tracks for mountain bikes - and they had a whale of a time slurping through the mud. Catrin was fine once they had dug her out and the second time round she used a snorkel for breathing.

THE MOON IS ROUND

Jim Elliot coined for himself the slogan, “the moon is round!” The night sky was a visible reminder to him that God’s purposes are whole and perfect, regardless of whether we can see or comprehend the wholeness or perfection. Even when the moon was just a crescent, or when it was obscured by clouds entirely, Jim would acknowledge its roundness in spite of what his eyes insisted. For him, the silver sliver of the moon was a small thumbnail image — merely a part of the whole picture.* He recognized that his senses might be able to apprehend a tiny, distorted perspective — but that his senses did not determine or alter the reality. The moon was round, regardless. God’s person and work was whole and perfect, regardless.

( Thanks Joy www.karagraphy.com for this )
Photo courtesy of BBC website.


Comments

joydriven said…
yes, i love that quotation.

i love LES CHORISTES, too.
don't worry--i'll get it back to you.
i promise.
8:50 am
Alan said…
There's no rush.. Enjoy :-)
8:54 am
Danny said…
Ah, I meant to view and photograph the eclipse myself, but was so far behind for Sunday...
2:33 am
Alan said…
Danny ! Welcome !

Well I tried to look at the moon, but the water kept going in my eyes and in the end, after I had almost drowned, Pat pulled me back into the house by the safety line.

Yes. It was raining. Heavily.
6:48 am
Anonymous said…
It was lovely, the moon actually, well to my eyes at least, took on a 3D appearance. 'Twere perfectly clear yere m'dear. However, by the time one has reached a certain - indeterminate - number of years, one has seen enough eclipses to become a little blase, (Where's the accent for that?), and so I didn't bother to watch it all the way through it's dark period. Does that make me old??? Probably!
2:03 pm
Alan said…
Ken, 23 hardly qualifies as old, does it?

Blessings !
2:11 pm
Anonymous said…
It does to a six year old - but that's enough of my emotional/mental age. (I think I have reached the point where my years are in reverse. I can remember what happened when I was knee-high to a grasshopper - glasshopper if your memory takes you back that far - but not what the lady wife said ten minutes ago. I put it down to senility but all the ladies I mention it to attribute it to selectivity).
12:03 pm
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