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HAVE YOU SEEN IT?
Have you ever seen it? No, I mean, have you ever REALLY seen it?
Well, if you haven't, than you don't know what you're missing out on.
Although it only lasts a few minutes, those minutes seem like days and
the effect can last a lifetime.
There are many places, really just about anywhere, that you can see it
from. However, there are only a handful of places where the mere
sight of it will truly entrance you. I have been blessed with the
opportunity to witness it at a few of these places, and it is my
pleasure to share my experiences with you.
I first witnessed it at the age of fourteen. There I sat my dog
Scooter planted next to me, on the hill in front of the elementary
school near my house. This hill overlooked a softball field and a
small forest with a creek running between them. My mother had told me
to go there and wait. When I asked her what it was I was going to
wait for, her reply was "You'll know when you see it." So I waited
there in the dark looking for something that: I would know when I saw
it. After a while there were birds chirping and crickets making that
noise that crickets make. All of
a sudden everything was coming to life. That's when I saw it. It
poked out through the trees, first just a little bit, then more and
more of it became exposed. As it came, the trees in the forest began
to reach out. The more it showed of itself, the further the trees
stretched. One moment they were floating on the water of the creek,
the next they were extending across the field crawling slowly towards
me. I didn't think that they would stop until they were holding onto
me, pulling me towards their raging master. Just as they began their
climb up the hill, almost upon me, they halted. When I looked up to
see the reason for the trees' discontinued motion, I was awestricken.
There it was, in all of its glory. I had seen it, and I knew.
The next time I saw it I was at the beach. Just my girlfriend and I,
enjoying our summer vacation to its full extent. On our third day
there she came to me and said; "Let's go, there's something I want you
to see." When, I asked what it was, she refused to tell me, insisting
on keeping me in suspense. Soon we were at the part of the land where
the ocean meets the sand. Not being able to see anything, I began to
doze off. When she awoke me, telling me to look out towards the never
ending ocean, I saw nothing. Then, just like that, it appeared. As
its tip stuck out over the ocean, it spread its tentacles across the
entire horizon. After a few days, which took mere moments to pass, it
was halfway exposed, excreting atomic gases which cut ripples in the
air in front of it. I could tell it was reaching temperatures
unimaginable as the darkness surrounding it began to melt. Soon it
was almost completely out of its lair, touching the ocean and the sky
all at once, providing a
blazing bridge between Heaven and Earth. As it continued to engulf
the world in its heated rage, it extended a pyro-pathway to me,
inviting me into its burning body to be lost forever in its boiling
belly. Realizing my lack of interest in an untimely internal death,
it stepped out of its resting place completely, daring all who were
present to stare directly into its satanic center, threatening to
singe scares into the essence of their eyes, painfully piercing the
sanity of their souls. This grilling globe of glowing gases, which
was emitting flaming flares disguised as beams of light, sweltering
swords to slice through the calm, began to use these sweltering swords
to slice through the calm, cold dark of night. As I gazed upon this
unearthly sight, my hand clenching around that of my love ever so
tight, I came to realize that this terribly terrific exothermic aurora
(being shown, seemingly, for my sole benefit) was no mad scientist's
monstrous mayhem, nor was it the Devil's destructive demonic display.
This stupendous sight of unexpected explosion occurring in front or me
held nothing less than the powerful purity or a true act of God.
Those of you fortunate enough to be able to relate to these
experiences, due to the similar experiences that you've had, can
attest to the fact that there is a greater being out there who
controls awesome powers inconceivable to the minds or us mere
mortals. The rest of you, who cannot identify with the description I
have given are not without hope. You need simply to choose a place,
your favorite in nature, go there just before the world has awakened,
while the earth is still engulfed in blackness, and just wait. You'll
see.
So to all of you out there who live in this world, I ask of you this
simple question; have you ever seen it? No, I mean, have you REALLY
ever seen it? You know, the SUNRISE?
Christian Hutchinson
Posted 04/29/2008
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