Alaskan Auroras

We bought our land up here in Alaska a whole year before we moved. We were saving up our pennies to build a cabin and Andy had promised to work for his dad that year anyway.

So we spent the year dreaming.

We could just picture ourselves in a little cabin in the wilderness watching the Northern Lights flash across the sky and hearing wolves howl in the distance.

Dreams are funny things. Usually it’s just imagination getting carried away with you, but every once in a while a dream comes true.

Honestly we’ve been a little disappointed in the northern lights so far. Usually it’s just a faint green glow on the horizon. The first time Andy called me out to see the northern lights. I was like, “Where?? Where?? Oh, there? Is that all? Meh.”

I figured we live too far south in Alaska to get a good light show.

But Monday night after putting the children in bed Andy and I turned off the lights and went out to look at the stars. Whaddya know! The green light was actually dancing in the sky!

In between settling Gabe, who was cross that we had turned the lights off, we watched in awe as the lights danced. It’s definitely otherworldly to see. Almost eerie.

We’ve been studying Genesis as a couple lately and how God “stretched out the heavens like a curtain.” When I think of how God would have to be outside the dimensions of space and time in order to set the planets and stars in motion it floors me to think of what a great God we serve!