Stairway to the Moon
I am told there is a place on the Western
Australian coast where the full moon rising over mud flats causes an optical
illusion.
From March to October each year, on three successive nights in each month, the
full moon rising over the mud flats, creates the illusion of a stairway reaching
to the moon. It sounds like a fairy tale and I would love to see it. I would
want to walk up that stairway into a new experience and be a part of the magic.
Imagine walking to the moon on a beautiful staircase.
Once upon a time a young man saw something similar. He was running away from
home. His father was dying and his brother was angry with him, so angry the
young man feared for his life. Off he went and one night, alone and weary with
walking, he put a stone under his head for a pillow and fell asleep.
He dreamed he saw a ladder leading from the ground right up to heaven and there
were angels walking up and down it. Then at the bottom, God stood beside him.
God introduced himself as the God of Abraham and his father, Isaac. God said to
him ‘All the families of the earth will wish to be blessed as you and your
descendants are blessed. I shall be with you to protect you wherever you go.’
The young man, Jacob, knew he would never be alone. There was a stairway to
heaven and before he even put a foot on it, he knew the Lord was walking it with
him.
I hope somebody has told the people in Western Australia about the stairway that
goes up past the moon, right to heaven. It belongs to everyone who walks it with
the Lord.
See Genesis 28:10-20.
Elizabeth Price