Rotations in Time

I love how God answers prayers. I suspect most of us, at least in the western world, know this to be true, or at the very least a thought that provides comfort; whether one believes it to be true or not.

To know it to be true though isn't just about believing - though that comes first - it is also about taking the time out to pause and be still. To meditate and be thankful. And sometimes in the busyness of our modern lives and the fullness of our scattered and overloaded minds we simply fail to see the grace of God's work among us in the 'small' day-to-day things.

But God answers prayers. He really does. In more ways than one. And they are always nothing short of amazing. In fact they are remarkable in ways I could never describe.

So it isn't God. It is us.

He hears us. Sometimes we just don't hear Him.

There is nothing more that really needs to be said about last night - a full lunar eclipse to be seen in the southern skies since July 2000. And my first ever. It was perfect. An answered prayer in more ways than one. Watching it upon a cliff face by the moon lit ocean, underneath a clear sky littered with stars, wrapped in a warm winter night in good company completed it.

It was creation at its finest. Life at its purist.

I can understand why it may require the 'big' things to confront us before we pause to remember God and His handiwork in our daily lives. Collectively there is a tendency to give our meaningless, but purposed filled lives too much credit.

My friend's words - 'how insignificant we are' - was a pertinent reflection on the universal truth of our humanity.