{"id":2319,"date":"2011-12-27T12:26:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:38:52","slug":"constantly-oozing-westward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/constantly-oozing-westward\/","title":{"rendered":"Constantly Oozing Westward"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met another what-adjective-do-I-use-now sunrise.<\/p>\n

Spectacular, stunning, fabulous, amazing, pretty, awe-inspiring<\/em> — they all fit while at the same time falling short of conveying exactly what I witnessed.<\/p>\n

So I hauled out my cheap-o, vintage cellphone and took a post-it-to-Facebook shot…and waxed somewhat poetic in my message: <\/p>\n

\"sunrise<\/a><\/p>\n

“Dark colors herald the beginning of another spectacular sunrise.
\nAnd to think it’s an event constantly oozing around the planet!”<\/div>\n

That was on December 24 (2011) at 7:24 (in the morning, right?).<\/p>\n

Still enthralled with the poetic poetickness, I posted to Twitter eleven minutes later:<\/p>\n

\"screen<\/a><\/p>\n

“Sunrise’s bright orange lava, perpetually oozing around the globe, gradually flows over eastern horizon. Please retweet!”<\/div>\n

I also used my regular-but-also-now-vintage camera to try to capture some of the imagery. Here’s one of the results:<\/p>\n

\"sunrise<\/a>
\nsunrise lava oozes ever westward<\/i><\/div>\n

Not only was I impressed by the immediate beauty and divine handiwork (using light and dust particles and other atmospheric “garbage”), I was also struck by the fact that the sunrise didn’t end when I quit seeing it.<\/p>\n

What I mean is, the sunrise marches faithfully in its global east-to-west circuit, flowing in a never ending stream of spectacular art. And practical art, relentlessly driving away the dark.<\/p>\n

Yup. Relentlessly, steadily, predictably oozing on and on and on in one giant cycle.<\/p>\n

I use the word oozing<\/em>. That sounds slow to me. And yet, how fast is a sunrise (and its pursuing\/pushing sunset)? I suppose the answer is the circumference of the globe divided by the day’s hours.<\/p>\n

If we were at the equator… Hmmm… Lemme look it up on Wikipedia<\/a>… OK, so we have 24,901.460897 miles divided by 24 hours… It seems the speed of the sunrise is roughly 1,038 miles per hour at the equator.<\/p>\n

I don’t know its speed here near the 45th parallel (45\u00b010’56″N). Would it be twice that? Half? Closer to half than to twice, I’m sure.<\/p>\n

Anyway, some day the beautiful, speeding, “never ending” sunrise ooze will end<\/b>. The Bible tells me so:<\/p>\n

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up”<\/span> (2 Peter 3:10).<\/p>\n

What of it?<\/p>\n

“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness”<\/span> (2 Peter 3:11).<\/p>\n

What manner of person ought I to be. Indeed.<\/p>\n

A good reminder to live by.<\/p>\n

And this time, God reminded me via a sunrise.<\/p>\n

Which makes it a repeatable reminder.<\/p>\n

If I’ll notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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