Once in a blue moon! That is today! August 31, 2012. When there are two full moons in one month, the second full moon is called a blue moon. This phenomenon happens only about every two and a half to three years. The next blue moon will be in July 2015.
It is interesting that the blue moon today coincided with Neil Armstrong’s funeral. That is so fitting.
Hope you got to experience this. It is beautiful.
Psalm 8 came to mind tonight as I looked at the moon.
Psalm 8
1 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!