Anybody else try to get their colorblind husband--who has a red/green deficiency--to get up at 3am and see the blood moon? After 5 seconds of being totally underwhelmed at a taupe moon, he understandably went back to bed. Thank goodness for Jude, who makes everything fun. Here are my meager, unfiltered iPhone pics--dull compared to NASA's-- but Jude and I both agreed that the most stunning part was not the red moon, perse, but that with the eclipsing of its normally bright light, the stars were bragging all across the night sky without competition. And SEVEN planets! Three of which were visible during that time in Nashville: Venus, Uranus and Saturn (the dark pic with the 3 tiny dots MAY have been them because they were the brightest thing in the sky, but I can't be sure and this DOESN'T do them justice). Orion appeared to be aiming his bow right at the moon! And the Great Bear (Ursa Major/The Big Dipper) was not upstaged by anything or anyone. I still marvel that these very constellations are named in Scripture (see below). So, the star and planet gazing alone was worth the sleep deprivation. Oh, and I included the pic of our neighbor's house because it was an accident and maybe the best of all--the first test pic where I'd forgotten to turn off my flash--but it captured a moment when the blood moon caused their autumn trees to absolutely glow (Blood Wolf, Beaver, whatever). GORGEOUS!!

Psalm 8:3-4 “When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars you set in place— what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?”

Job 9:8 “He alone has spread out the heavens and marches on the waves of the sea. He made all the stars—the BEAR and ORION, the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky.”

Isaiah 40:26-27 “Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing.

Genesis 1:14-18 “Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years. Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth.” And that is what happened. God made two great lights–the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set these lights in the sky to light the earth, to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.”

Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky displays what his hands have made.”

“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord,” – Joel 2:31 and Acts 2:20.

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