Saturday, October 9, 2010

Paintings from above

Tonight I grilled. As I was doing so, the sun was setting and I am not going to begin trying to describe what it looked like because my descriptions would be completely inadequate. Let's just say that it was a sunset, not altogether uncommon, but one that brought out all colors of the spectrum, mixed in with streaks of light shimmering through clouds at different intervals. For any of you who take the time to watch sunsets (or sunrises for that matter), they are like paintings forever changing at any given second. One moment, they spread one collage of color down and a few seconds later, everything has shifted. As I watched the colors change, something hit me... I am the only one on planet earth seeing this exact sunset. Everyone might be looking at the same sun and maybe even the same clouds, but the angles are all different. For some, the sun sits lower in the sky, for some, higher. The clouds may be different shapes and the colors may be brighter or dimmer.

I am the only one on the entire planet seeing this sunset...

To go another step, God specifically created this sunset for me to watch and enjoy. He also created another sunset for someone else to watch and enjoy. The same sun, the same clouds (possibly), but a completely different result. Interesting.