I remember seeing a partial eclipse in the 2nd or 3rd grade though a borrowed welder’s mask.  It was interesting and I was expecting a similar occurrence this time around with the “Great American Eclipse of 2017.”  It stretched from Oregon to South Carolina and right through Nashville.  We experienced totality at around 1:30PM today.  It was amazing.  It was spectacular. It was dark, but not complete darkness.  I felt like dusk with a sunset all around you.  Streetlights came on.  We saw the glow of lights in our office in front of us.  I took this photo above which I’m quite fond of.

I wonder what indigenous people must have thought when, without a forecast, the sun was eclipsed.  I could see how they thought it might have been a sign of something foreboding.

This is what it must have felt with 3 hours of darkness from noon to 3PM when Jesus died on the cross.  I don’t know if it was an eclipse or more unexplained divine phenomenon.  It must have made witnesses frightened; hence the Roman soldier’s proclamation that “Surely this was the Son of God.”