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« on: April 09, 2024, 05:38:31 AM »
It was 91% where I am, and I wanted to see it, but I had a doctor appointment at 12:45, just after it began, and it was cloudy and raining anyway, so I resigned myself to missing it.
The doctor was done with me around the maximum at 1:45 and a few minutes later I walked outside. My car was only about 20 steps away, just a few seconds of walking from building to car. It had stopped raining but the sky was still full of clouds and I looked up: Just then a large grey cloud moved to reveal what looked like a crescent new moon. I stared right at it and as the mist further cleared I realized it wasn’t the moon but the crescent of sun behind the dark disc of the moon, also discernible, still through enough mist that it wasn’t bright enough to hurt my eyes but very clear and plain, and all surrounded by heavy grey clouds. I looked at it about two seconds before another cloud covered it back up and it was gone. A few more steps to my car, we drove off and it started raining again.
It was one of the most beautiful sights I’ve ever seen. No safety glasses, no pinholes in boxes, just perfect timing and no eye damage. I will never forget it. You can’t convince me that wasn’t a gift from God. It’s like He pulled the curtain back just for me, and just for two seconds so as not to let me damage my eyes, just as I happened to look up in the short distance between the building and the car.
Furthermore as we left the building (my husband was with me) we were delayed several seconds by an old lady with a walker who was in front of us and excruciatingly slow. But we were patient and did not try to push past her. If we had, the timing would have been off and I would have missed it. My husband missed it anyway, he was busy unlocking the car and by the time I yelled at him about it, it was gone.
Maybe that was a lesson from God not to be impatient with slow old people.