Sacred Communication in Nature
Natural Experience
Starry Night Experience
A short time ago, I set out with a few good friends to take photos of the night time sky. I had been taking a photography class to satisfy my college degrees demand for creativity. I interested in doing a project called “In the Beginning…”. It would be a project based upon the first few chapters of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. Genesis tells the story of creation. On the fourth day of creation, God created the stars in the sky. To retell this part of the story, I would need to photograph a beautiful series of stars. We set out on a dock of a river and tried pointing our cameras upwards, but few stars could be seen. My two friends were photographic experts, so they knew it would take a while to capture the right shot. We waited and waited and changed the setting on the camera an uncountable amount of times. During this time we enjoyed the dock and the stars in the sky. I never captured the right shot. The stars were either too far away, or there was too much distraction from the lights of the inhabited areas around the river. Eventually, we were just sitting there and talking about our lives. This would be a relaxing experience, and, although there wasn’t much sacred about it, it caused a certain amount of natural communication between the three of us.
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