Lunar Eclipse

Three young men hanging out in Drew's bedroom, playing with action figures, the TV blaring. Suddenly they heard mention of the lunar eclipse underway and the three of them bolted down the hallway and out the front door sans coats to take a look, never mind the freezing temperatures!

Periodically over the next hour, they interrupted their play to migrate to the front door and see the progress. It was enticing, the black shadow creeping across the face of the moon. I wonder if life on the moon, being unavoidable plunged into both darkness and cold, knew they were being observed.

It was the talk of the community all day. Why the fascination? Its not like we live in the dark ages, pardon the pun. We are, after all, people of science and education, not given to bouts of hysteria or taken in by some magician's slight of hand. Yet we cannot help looking at the lunar eclipse, and I don't think its just because of the rarity of occurrence.

There is something about seeing action on a grander scale than normal that reminds us we are not alone, we are not so all fired important as we sometimes think we are. To these three young men (awesome, cool, neat) the fascination lingered, momentarily jolting them from their focus on gameboy, touching them with a sense of the inordinately superior organization and balance of God's creation. A moment not easily forgotten.