Coco Calling No.234 - The Night I Glimpsed Another World
Photo: Trudy Herniman, Queen’s Nympton
One night last week, I was gently rocking on my perch, quietly listening to the snores and snuffles of our two Labradors, when I half-happened a dozy eye. And what do you think I saw? Yes, a bright colour in the sky. And to begin with, I thought I was dreaming. I sometimes have ‘red’ dreams when I dream of large, juicy, succulent chillies. And sometimes my dreams are in green and yellow as I dream of other Senegal Parrots. But on this occasion, the colour I could see was a luminous pink. And before you ask, no, I wasn’t dreaming of humans suffering from acute sunburn. And it wasn’t just the colour that caught my attention. No, there were curtains of light that gently drifted to and fro across the sky, as if performing some kind of celestial ballet. Eventually, I woke up enough to realise that I was witnessing the Aurora Borealis!
And I can understand why so many humans get excited when they see the Northern Lights. Because they help us to connect to a world that is way beyond anything that we know or experience here on Earth. They provide us with a glimpse ethereal beauty, of power and delicacy and strength and softness all at once. And an unfolding act of spiritual movement and creation.
Human scientists will quickly tell us that all of this is purely a natural phenomenon. And any parrot with half a brain is likely to agree with this. But a glimpse like I had of the Northen Lights, helps us all to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of our physical lives on Earth, and to embrace something that is so very much bigger, greater, more powerful and beautiful than anything else we see around us. And so I believe that the Northern Lights can also open our minds up to the existence of a loving and powerful Creator; of eternity in Heaven; and of a spiritual existence that goes way beyond anything we experience here on Earth. It was the night I glimpsed another world……
“At the very best, we only have an inkling of the wonder of who God is." (Alistair Begg: [Dates unknown]: Current Pastor in Cleveland, USA)
“The Light shines in the darkness but the darkness has not understood it.”
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