Sunday, May 18, 2008

The Crown Jewel of Bountiful




I know, I know, I take a lot of sunset pictures.  Can't help it.  First, it is the star attraction of Bountiful, the reason people pay crazy money for a house on the east bench -- each one comes with its own evening light show.  There is more to my obsession than that, though. 

Sunsets and music are probably half the reason I even believe in God in the first place.  How can this miracle of ever changing beauty be merely a galactic happenstance, a statistical freak show of just rights -- distance, atmosphere, rotation, refraction, stability, temperature, and water abounding in an immense sea of absolute zero?  And what possible "survival advantage" could be so important that our eyes evolved to see this?  Or would the argument be that it was just a fortunate random occurrence, one of those evolutionary anomalies?  

Feel free to take those if you like.  For me, it is God, plain and simple, and each time I see one, it is like a smile (or sometimes even an ear to ear grin) from Heaven.  So if you feel I post a few too many, just think of it that way, and share the joy and comfort it brings.  

But in case you still think I am far too routine, here's tonight's full moon, just to really shake things up :-).  



4 comments:

The Molen's said...

Yes, I miss those sunsets! Keep 'em coming! The picture of the full moon is so bright that it hurt my eyes a little!

Shanana said...

Ever the scientist, I came to my testimony much the same way. It just doesn't make sense to me that such exquisite beauty could happen by accident, and that the human body just coincidentally developed all the sensations to appreciate and evaluate said beauty.

Lovely pictures, as always.

thebohans said...

Hi Kathleen, I was just reading the Nelsons blog (Nat & Tyler) and she posted on there about Google reader... you just "subscribe" to your friends blogs and it emails you anytime someone updates. I am not sure how it works but with all the blogs you guys have to keep up with it might be cool!

Malinda

Candice said...

No complaints here. LOVE the beautiful sunrise/sunset pictures (cue Fiddler on the Roof music...).

Thanks for sharing.