and binds up their wounds.
4 He determines the number of the stars
and calls them each by name.
5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit."
- Psalm 147: 3-5
There are a few things in my life that make me truly understand the greater power of our Lord. Most of them are seen in nature and most are usually too awesome to explain in words. Two of those things are similar. The sunrise and the sunset. Although, the sunrise has more powerful emotions behind it as the dawning of a new day has spiritual and biblical connotations that the sunset sometimes lacks.
Another example, and the one I am going to talk about further, is the night sky.
God created the sky and evening on the second day. Two days later, God made lights to separate day and night and created the stars. (Genesis 1:16) He is so great even, that we cannot fathom the number of stars and yet, He knows them by name as the verse of the day reads at the top of the post.
To me, the stars stand as one of the greatest displays of God's awesome power. To me, he created the stars only as something gorgeous and mesmerizing to look at. They hardly ever change, besides their nightly and yearly rotation, and yet, they are always fascinating and new. The universe, the Milky Way, planets, worm holes, black holes, supernovas, what ever the astronomical event, it is amazing and divinely created.
Wednesday was a new moon night, which for a photographer is the ultimate time to go out and photograph the stars as there is no sky light to interrupt the multitude of stars. Unfortunately, there were some storms rolling through and it wasn't an ideal night to photograph. However, as per usual, the moon takes roughly 15 days to build back to full and there are still a couple of days in which star viewing is possible without light interruption. I took my chance, despite evening clouds and daytime breezes and went out to Lake Mary to see what I could see.
I have been blessed to grow up in a city renowned for it's dark skies. In general, Northern Arizona and Southern Utah have some of the clearest, darkest skies in the country. More specifically, Flagstaff is the world's first International Dark Sky City. Only three other cities in the world have the same designation. Lowell Observatory, located in Flagstaff, discovered Pluto back in 1930 by a gentleman named Clyde Tombaugh. Lowell is also known for a few other discoveries despite it's small notoriety.
Unfortunately our eyes are not sensitive enough to capture all the light that is available in the night sky even when there is no moon out. Fortunately, new cameras do have the capability with the right equipment. And on one of those clear moonless nights, a camera can capture all the majesty that God has placed in the Heavens for us to enjoy.
P.S. You just had a Bible, Geography, History, Anatomy and Philosophy lesson rolled into one. Who said the internet is bad for you.
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