...my first thought was not "How Pretty!"... even though that particular language did come a little bit later in my internal mental dialogue (of which there is much, just ask my psychiatrist). My second thought was a series of technical ones, all directed toward figuring out how an ordinary camera lens and optics could distort that round bright ball in the sky into what I saw on the resulting image. This train of thought didn't last very long, because the benefits of surmising a range of hypotheses regarding the scientific origin of my cameras's unexpected behavior just weren't that important to me.
Instead, my first thought began with speechlessness and disbelief. And, being the jaded, skeptical type of person I often excel at, I took another 20 or 30 photos with the same lens and scenery to verify that I had more than just a "once only" in my digital hands. The star remained, prompting me to move beyond the speechlessness that lingered in both my mind and heart.
Until the sun dropped below the approaching fog on the horizon, the six points of the start remained. Six points speaking to God's six days of creating the world. Six points speaking to the six attributes of God symbolized by the star: power, love, wisdom, mercy, justice, and majesty.
As my speechlessness passed, I had my first thought, an entirely crazy one:
Why is the Star of Creation casting a glow on Whidbey Island, Washington?
What is it doing HERE, of all places?
I realize that it would be safer (and less crazy) to just trim my thoughts back to "How Pretty". But, why do it that way? Why not think for a moment that God is not only right here on Whidbey Island, but planning to reveal Himself soon in a way that those here who don't know Him will have, as their first six thoughts:
Power, Love, Wisdom, Mercy, Justice, and Majesty
Would that be totally awesome or what?
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