Have you ever seen a Super Blood Blue moon? If you were lucky enough to live out west your view to the first Blue Moon and Blood Moon on the same night since 1866, was better than ours here in the Midwest. You had to be an early riser this morning to see the moon raise and set in a very short time. But during its short trip from rising to setting it endured a solar eclipse, thus the phenomena of the red colors of the moon. Another benefit to this astronomical wonder was the moon was in its perigee position which makes it look both 14% larger and 30% brighter. I am always amazed and awed at the handiwork of the mighty God we serve.
The expression of, “once in a blue moon,” was penned in the Farmer’s Almanac trying to explain the happenstance of two full moons in the same month. The second full moon was dubbed the “Blue Moon”. But a true blue moon is colored by the scattering of light fragments caused by volcanic ash or forest fire ash in the atmosphere. Sometimes turning the moon red, or blue, and even causing a lilac hue, depending on the refraction of the light rays being bent by the particles of the ash in the atmosphere.
Have you ever laid in the grass on a warm summer day to look up at the moon and the stars? What makes the moon so romantic? Why does looking at the moon make you feel nostalgic? Is it because in our life it is one of the few things which hasn’t changed. There is a sense of security and comfort to know you can look up and see it there unchanged. Have you ever tried to count the stars? The Bible tell us that God knows the exact number, and has named every one of them. Just as the Bible tells us he knows every hair on our head, our getting up and our lying down. There is comfort in knowing God hasn’t changed, and never will. He is the same, yesterday, today and will be tomorrow! Amen!
As parents we need to teach our children to understand the universe is the handiwork of God. The sky is to his Glory! Every day of their lives, God knows their rising up, and their lying down, and every hair on their head. He knows them and cares about them.
We as authors often use the romance of the moon and stars in our stories. How often do we give the maker of those heavenly bodies any credit for his masterpieces? Something to think about.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis 1:14
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Psalms 8:3
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:25
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Isaiah 66:22