The Clouds at Twilight

I was out in the high desert this weekend, morning and evening.  I could see the horizon and all the clouds and sky.

I saw the sunrise and the sunset–fortunately I had something else to do so I was able to appreciate their full beauty, I didn’t have to stand there consciously trying to have an aesthetic experience.

I noticed something I have seen before.

Sunrise

Until the sunrise is over, every time you glance over it is more wonderful.  The first pale light of dawn is timid.  Then after that brighter every time, different colors, and the angles shift.  Even if you expect it to be better you still aren’t prepared when you look up again for the actual shock of beauty.

But the day itself is fairly bland unless there are plenty of clouds.

Perhaps there is a metaphor in there for why God mostly conceals his presence from us.

Sunset

The colors shift and the brightness fades.  It is probably the exact physical inverse of the sunrise.  But this time the quieter colors are the more beautiful.  Again, every time you look up and see the sunrise, you are again shocked at the beauty.  You weren’t expecting it.  There is something about the black line of the horizon, the dark clouds limned with almost imperceptible hints of deep, deep red, and the still faintly blue sky far above them that is almost heart-stopping.

I noted the paradox this weekend. The sunrise becomes more glorious as it brightens.  The sunset more glorious as it dims.

Each one because it is becoming more itself.  It is working out even further its inner logic.

But for the twilight, especially, it is because even a dimmer light shines brighter when its surroundings have gotten that much more dark.

And the night itself is not bland.  Either the stars in the heaven appear, or else like the last two nights, the moon rises over the horizon.

The light is not defeated by the going down of the sun.

You are the Light in the Twilight of the West

Why is the Left so unwilling to leave anybody alone?  Why can’t they just be content with their victory?

There are many true answers to that question.

But Bruce Charlton has the truest answer of all.

And by this demand; Leftism reveals its weakness to those with spiritual-eyes to see: that any single individual person who dissents in thought (no matter how apparently obscure) is a significant threat to The Agenda at the level which matters most: i.e. the spiritual level.

The individual has never been so objectively empowered as here-and-now. 

The Global Establishment demands that you, specifically (no matter who you are), decide to be On Their Side.

When the demonic powers view our planet; any dissidence, any one Godly Christian, stands-out of this world like a blazing beacon.

(This, ultimately, is why there is “no hiding place”.)

 

Of course it is vital to The Enemy to persuade Christians that Resistance Is Futile…

Meanwhile, by everything they actually do; Leftism makes clear that any resistance, by any person, anywhere is In Fact a colossal threat to The System – at its primary and spiritual level.

Your faith is not futile.  You shine all the more beautiful as the light of our society fades.