YOU SURVIVED!
Eclipses are easy...crazies are not!
This past Monday I sat outside with a couple of friends and observed the solar eclipse. It is an odd and eerie thing. But this time the eclipse was accompanied by so much drama! Seven years ago we had a full solar eclipse. I don't remember any "national emergency" declarations. I don't remember food panics and posts about how to handle solar eclipse anxieties. Do you?
Yet that's the strange place we find ourselves in “post-truth” America where we live through manufactured pandemics and Russia-collusion hoaxes and open borders that are "secure."
But here's some good news. We survived the crazies! And there's a reason why: God is in control. Read this brilliant explanation of how incredible it is that we even are able to have a full solar eclipse.
“Scientists tell us that the sun is 390 times larger than the moon, but it is also 390 times father away. Every eighteen months or so they align perfectly so that the moon’s shadow passes over the earth, and those in the path of that shadow see a solar eclipse. This is often described as one of the great coincidences of our solar system.
Astronomers also tell us that there are 295 moons in our solar system. And yet ours is the only moon with the exact size and distance to perfectly match the sun and produce the amazing spectacle we see somewhere on our planet every 18 months or so. If our moon was any smaller the sky would not turn dark, and if it was any larger, we would never see that brilliant corona. For many, it is a source of wonder, that the one place where these amazing eclipses occur, is the one place where there are observers to see them.
In one of his humorous harangues about “Life Below the Beltway,” Washington Post contributor, Gene Weingarten, once admitted, “I am a devout atheist but can't explain why the moon is exactly the right size, and gets positioned so precisely between the earth and the sun, that total solar eclipses are perfect. It bothers me.” (The Washington Post, Sunday, March 8, 2009). And so it is that this extraordinary event has been witnessed by our planet throughout history…
As a Christian educator, I am reminded that God reveals His truth to us in two ways: through the general revelation of His natural world and through the special revelation of His written word. Psalm 19 encapsulates this for us beautifully. “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” (Psalm 19:1). There are no words, and yet the message of God’s existence and power is heard everywhere.”
The Total Eclipse of the Sun -- and the Exceptional Nature of our Planet
Stephen E. Danish
Head of School Emeritus
Immanuel Christian School"
NEW TIME FOR “TAVERN TALKS”
Our first “Tavern Talks” at The Mission Cigar and Social in Spring Hill, TN was great. One guy there admitted he had never stepped foot in a cigar lounge! But he came for the friendship and focus on spiritual realities.
We decided to do these weekly meetings at 7am from here forward. Please make that adjustment in your calendar reminder.
This gathering is for many things….stories about God encounters in our lives, talking about the issues we face every day, prayer for each other, laughs, etc.
For anyone in the local Mid TN area wanting an early-morning boost of friendship, truth, storytelling, connection, and not afraid to meet in a cigar shop before your workday, this is for you!
Cigars will be available for purchase; bring your coffee, your bible, a friend, and your Febreze if you have a meeting at the office afterward!
FINAL THOUGHT….TRUTH BOMB
Looking up! (Luke 21:28)
Tod Bell
Chief Tavern Host