Because She Looked Up

On June 3, Barb stepped outside her Spokane home to witness a very rare, beautiful and probably once in a lifetime spectacle. She ran back in, grabbed her camera and captured these images of a Circum Horizontal Arc. If you know what that is, then you get an A+ in science.

The local news said, “It is an exceptionally rare event that can only be seen in the Northern United States during the late Spring/early Summer months, and even then under only the most unique atmospheric conditions.”

It apparently works in the same fashion as a rainbow except it is not raining. It happens only when the sun is very high in the sky and ice crystals in the clouds are floating in horizontal plates.

The skinny is that everything is always up there - it just takes the sun to shine through.

I opened Barb’s Email and was delighted that she had sent them to the hubby and me. She had given credit for the beauty she had captured by giving the pictures titles such as “Only God”, “In His Glory,” and “God’s Wonder.”

The hubby and I have known her since she was a ‘kid’ and have been aware of the obstacles she faced and some of choices that life denied her. There was a time when her heart was frozen in sorrow and disappointments and her physical challenges kept her floating in horizontal plates. But something happened in her life and all that changed.

She had no idea that I would look at each of these pictures with amazement and see in them a reflection of her life.

I wondered, did she realize that she had experienced another once in a lifetime event ….because she looked up?

The skinny is that in Barbara’s life ......one day the Son started shining through.