We interrupt our last few blogs in Matthew’s Gospel to bring late news…there was a lunar eclipse last Sunday night, May 15. For us in the Mountain Time zone, it was at a civilized hour, beginning at 8:30p. We watched it right outside our back door until totality at 9:30p, and my handheld camera with massive zoom and vibration dampener did a pretty good job:

And I’m always in awe of the astronomers and mathematicians who tell us exactly when these things will occur.

The sun turned to darkness in August of 2017, and I had told myself that if I was close enough to totality I would go. (Once I was just outside totality and didn’t go – it’s a huge difference.) My son Mark (far right) set this picture up in advance and we were able to get it. (L to R, granddaughter Kesley, me, Mark’s running friend from Denmark, KC and Mark.

Peter quotes Joel in his first sermon in Acts 2:

And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Acts 2.19 – 21, ESV, emphasis mine)