I love being in the office alone and watching the sun set over Bukit Timah.
It is my favourite time of the day - the hour between 6:30 and 7:30pm - when the shadows grow long and funky looking in the changing light. Things look funny between 6:30 and 7:30pm - shapes get somewhat distorted and colours become richer. It is as if earth is harnessing all its energies for one last explosion of brilliance before it quietly succumbs to the encroaching night. It is also the hour when birds go home to sleep.
One of my favourite places in the world is a rock that overlooks the A- river. It is not exactly the most romantic or comfortable of places - it inclines backwards, and the river is frequented by barges and motorboats. But at sunset, it transforms into a living painting. I used to sit there by myself, torn in two cos I wanted to sit and watch the sunset, but reluctant to stay cos I did not want to cycle the hilly and arduous 50min journey back in the dark. Common sense usually got the better of me and I would make it back in time for dinner.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
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i know exactly what you mean... dusk is a really magical moment... it's one of two times in a day you can gaze at the sun without it hurting your eyes... when the sky is painted with a million subtle, delicate hues of golds, oranges, pinks, and purples, reflected on to the clouds... creating a living canvas almost...
dunno if i'm interpreting the bible correctly but in Genesis 3, it talks of God coming to the garden of Eden and communing with Adam and Eve "in the cool of the day"... i take that to mean around dusk cos some versions translate it as "towards evening"...
the time when God chooses to reveal himself to man parallels the fact that we can look at the sun and not be blinded by its glory and brilliance at that point in time... would like to think it's His favourite time of day as well...
interesting.. of course Adam and Eve were hiding from God at that point cos they had just gone and done the one thing they were not supposed to do, and when God showed up, it was to rebuke them rather than to swathe them in love.
But I think it is neat that it was God who first called out to them when they were too stricken by guilt and shame to come to him, and that after he judged them for their sin, he provided garments of skin to cover their shame. Maybe the garments of skin were a foretelling of the sacrifice that had to be made for sin? Some animal had to be killed for that skin.
Although evening is my favourite time of the day, sometimes it makes me feel terribly desperate - night will fall no matter what. But I am glad that it is at this point of desperation that God shows up so we don't have to hide anymore.
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