Triple C News - August 12

Hey, everyone!

Hope you’re having an awesome, joyful,  praise-filled today! 

(And if your day is in some ways a little less-than-awesome, I guess you can’t really help that. But filling it with singing and thankfulness until it’s classified as official “praise-filled” is up to us!)

And after the rain blows thru, there’s gonna be a string of bright sunny days ahead!! 

And bright moony nights!

“Moony nights?”

Well, I don’t know if that’s really how you say it but if the sun’s bright, we say it’s “sunny”. If the moon’s bright wouldn’t it be…”moony”?

Yes, you guessed it! 

This is “supermoon weekend”! This will be our last supermoon of 2022, so check it out!

A supermoon is when the full moon is closest to the Earth along its circular trips around us (when it’s a little closer, it’s called in its “perigee”), so it’s 17% bigger and up to 30% brighter! 

That’s super!

Of course, it’s not “bigger” but it’s closer to us so it just looks bigger.

But sometimes when it’s a “new moon” and you can’t even see it, it can also be in it’s “perigee” and closer to us than normal! 

Have you thanked God for the moon yet today?

If it weren’t for the moon, it would never be spring! Or fall! Or summer or winter!! The gravitation of the moon keeps us tilted while we spin at the precise angle of…(google…google…google…) 23.5 degrees! As we travel around the sun, we have our seasons along the way! If we were spinning straight up and down, it’d always be a lot more frozen on each end and in the middle as hot as…can be! 

(“He made the moon to mark the seasons…!” Psalm 104:19…Who knew??)

If it weren’t for the moon’s gravity pulling on us, the Earth would spin so fast there would be hurricane-like winds and rains all the time everywhere! Starting with the “A’s”, they’d just name it “Albert” and it’d last forever!

Thank you, Lord Jesus for the moon!

Psalm 72:5 says that our King “will endure as long as the moon!” 

And when the sun and moon are no more, He will be the light of the Heavenly City! (Revelation 21:23)

Our Scriptures say Jesus is like the “Sun of Righteousness with healing in His beams” (Malachi 4:2)

And He’s like the moon in some ways too!

Because of Him, our life has different seasons, each one beautiful in its unique ways! 

“Summer and winter and springtime and harvest

Sun, moon and stars in their courses above

Sing with all nature in manifold witness

to Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love!”

And because of Him, we don’t have to spin so fast we can’t even catch our breath!

“But you will not leave in haste… for the Lord will go before you!” Isaiah 52:12

And even when sometimes we don’t see Him, just like the new moon in its perigee, He’s closer than ever! 

The supermoon! Starts at 9:36 tonight till Saturday morning!

It’s gonna be a moony night!

In fact, supermoony!

Check it out!

And thank Jesus for the moon!

And for Him!