Lockdown 56

Lockdown Day 56 - 21 May 2020

This morning the sun surprised us once again by appearing as a huge white fireball just sitting on the red horizon. I am told it is dust that makes the sky this red at a cloudless sunrise. 

I read recently it takes 8 minutes for the sunlight  to reach earth, traveling at three hundred housand kilometres per second. The sun also generates solar winds which are bursts of plasma from the corona layer (no, the abonimable virus did not get its name from the sun), traveling up to 450km per second. One of the places I still want to see are the Northern Lights, generated by the interaction between the solar winds and our atmosphere. One last fun fact is the sun's surface temperature is between 5027°C and 5727°C. (Phew, and I thought I had hot flushes!) 

As the day passed and the sun glided through is winter path, I was mindfully aware that the sun has a lifetime just as we have a lifetime. And its value is immeasurable, its existence irreplaceable as far as creation goes. 

I believe this is exactly how we were created: to have immeasurable value as a unique human being with 

an irreplaceble fingerprint - the signature of our Creator. 

Feeling the sun on my skin today as I sat in the green room, I smiled at the warmth and the light, realising this is exactly what it means to be created in His image (as written in Genesis). 

Just as it is never dark where the sun is,  it is never dark where God is. Therefore I shall strive to generate more of the  warmth and light I was created to be. 

So tonight I retire with a thank you note for the sun sent as a reminder each day of my God who's got this.