Northern Lights

Well, I did get to see the northern lights in Yellowknife! They weren't scintillating colours, more a white or pale green, but they were still impressive. We were viewing them from the edge of the retreat centre we were staying at... and they were nice there. But then someone took us out, through Yellowknife, and onto the ice road across the big lake. We got a fair distance from the lights of Yellowknife, and there they were, a huge curtain of northern lights hanging across the sky, shifting and dancing! Very cool.... You actually feel very small and insignificant standing there beneath them, beneath the most impressive live painting experience in the world. Apparently they are also there during the day, but it's too light for us to see them... To think that this is happening all the time... and most times we can't see it. In the city, even at night, it's hard to see them, because of all the city lights. Reminds me that we clutter up our lives with all sorts of things, and we can't see the things that are out there all the time... The glory of God that is all around us... The beauty of other people... We are blind to those things, blinded by our own stuff... interesting....