4/8/2024 0 Comments April 08th, 2024Today's a big event. A total solar eclipse. They say the next widely visible event like this one won't occur until 2044.
Maybe I'll be here. Maybe I won't. Either way, the invitation to be a part of the one today is timely. So I think I'll accept it. An invitation? It is. At least to me. It's an amazing thing, this idea of a total solar eclipse. It's amazing because it makes me deeply wonder, how does the moon, 400 times smaller than the sun, ever stand a chance of blocking its all encompassing fire and flames and fury? How does something so big and so bright fall prey to the moon, who will momentarily send all in its path into darkness? It's the distance. This is possible because even though the sun is 400 times bigger than the moon, the sun is also 400 times further away from us than the moon. It's blazing heat can often make it feel like it's closer than it is, but the reality is the sun is unimaginably far away. Unimaginable, that is, until the moon comes into the picture. Until the moon comes into the picture and reveals the power of proximity. This invitation I have today, it's from God. My God who wants me to know that some of the heat and stress I can feel under these days, most of those stressors feel so intense because I allow them to live much closer to me than they really need to be. Much closer to me than they really are. It's my God who wants me to know that it's me who sometimes turns away from the power and strength found in who is closest to me to focus on things distant that can feel like they are going to melt me into nothingness. This eclipse, it's an invitation from my God to see and feel the power of leaning into the relationships that are closest to me, to protect me from the things that at times can feel most destructive to me. The sun is 400 times bigger and 400,000 times brighter than the moon. Yet today, the moon will make both insignificant as it sends us into total darkness. How? Closeness. That's how. God is inviting me today to be reminded that the things that often feel the heaviest and most daunting and at times as if they can never be overcome, can indeed be overcome. If I will turn my attention to the one who is closest to me. The one who is closest to me and who will today draw the attention of millions to an invitation to be reminded of that. We often turn away from the one most interested in protecting and guiding us in life because he often feels so far away. Today I will be reminded that he is much closer than I think. And there is unimaginable power in closeness.
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