Multilingual

Yesterday, on FB, someone posted that folks use the word "awesome" a lot.  We say, "these are awesome French fries," "your hair looks really awesome," "he's an awesome athlete."  I have very little problem with people using the word.  It is a whole lot better than people going around saying everything is awful.  That same person stated that yesterday, during the eclipse, the word "awesome" was absolutely appropriate. Awesome was certainly the best word I could find, and I felt, like most everyone, "awesome" was awesomely inadequate.

I offered to make eclipse food and suggested that we  just stay at our house to watch the spectacle rather than going to one of the many venues in town offering eclipse activities.  What we witnessed was far more spectacle than any of us expected.  How this could be so is a puzzle, because the hype leading up to the event was immense.  It turns out that there could not have been too much hype.  It was certainly an event that had to be seen, for words would never be adequate in describing it.

Eclipse pizzas, eclipse oranges as the sun and blueberries as the moon, Sunkist, eclipse cookies and Eclipse gum were on the menu.  Around noon, we looked up, with our glasses on, of course, and saw that the event had begun.  Some of our group had to leave, but the rest of us camped out on the front lawn to await totality.  Fizzy even ran home from the Downtown Y so he could be with us to see it. You do realize when I say "ran" I mean literally, not figuratively.  

Most of our crowd, being committed introverts, could not have been happier.  Quietly sitting side by side, listening to the sounds of nature, pondering our smallness and the vastness of the universe was absolute perfection.  No music was blaring.  Mainly, the only words spoken were words of awe.  I think Sheri said "way to go God!"  I cried.

It occurred to me that this was an event that spoke so completely to both believers in an omniscient and omnipresent God and those whose belief lies more in the truth of science. I, personally, do not believe these two things are mutually exclusive, for God is multilingual.  One of his many languages is the language of science.  He is the author of science.  This is why it is hard to understand pushback against the idea of evolution.  A creator who makes animals and plants and humans who evolve over time, rather than just staying as is for always, is unspeakably creative. God spoke to me yesterday.  Science astounded me. The perfect timing of sun and moon aligned and scientists being able to tell us the exact minute it would occur in every area where it would be seen is amazing. Yesterday, God spoke loudly and clearly in his language of science and it was AWESOME!