Steve looked at the sunrise letting his mind wrap his preconceptions around what he saw. He was no longer a pagan rationalizing this burning ball of hydrogen as a pantheistic spiritual entity. Nor was he ever an atheist seeing naturalistic stellar evolution in play rather than the greater light created by God to rule the day.
Taking Einstein’s relativity seriously he stipulated that the one-way speed of light from the sun to him was instantaneous. This forced the one-way speed back to the sun to be half the speed some might want it to be who preferred their own preconceptions to help them get lost in the addiction of deep time.
With that taken care of Steve watched the birds originally created on the fifth day watch the sun rise over the catastrophic flood waters that drained off over five millennia ago to become the Atlantic Ocean.
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Denise offers the prompt word “wrap” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
If the story makes no sense, I’ve been reading Jason Lisle’s 2010 presentation of the anisotropic synchrony convention and a 2018 modification of it by Tenev, et al.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
Beautiful, Frank. Well done!
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Thank you, Susan!
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I must confess that after reading the last paragraph, I was scratching my head. Thanks for the supplemental resources. I will check them out.
Blessings.
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I am finding the resources interesting especially the first one. I am also going through some of the items in the bibliography. Thanks, Michael!
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Hmm, his preconceptions allow him to vassilate between the pagan he was and the atheist he never was. Our mind always wants the answers and so often God just gives us truth with no explanation. Nice Frank. And above my head.
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Good point that we need God’s revelation when we look for answers. Thank you, Mary!
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I love the intense refection that comes from just taking time to look at something we always see. Great six Frank.
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Thank you, Anne! The mind can take us in many directions to explain why we are here at all seeing what we see.
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Excellent take!
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Thank you, Reena!
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That went above my head!
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Much of it is above my head as well. I’ve been trying to make sense our of Lisle’s anisotropic synchrony convention. Thank you, Jim!
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Ah gotcha
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You certainly know how to get us thinking Frank. I’ll hopefully be coming back to follow the links when I have a little time to spare as you’ve got me intrigued!
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Thank you, Keith!
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Fun Six!
Not really a hardcore science guy, (though I sometimes write myself as such in the blogosphere), your phrase, “…he stipulated that the one-way speed of light from the sun to him was instantaneous”
sparked the connection to one of Zeno’s paradoxes, ‘Archilles and the Tortise’… of course I have no clue why, but, as we know, the fun is in the journey (and browsing wikipedia)
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Achilles stipulated he would win the race, but maybe the Tortoise did as well. Thank you, Clark!
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Science and faith are more close than they led themselves to believe.
Warp speed Six, Frank!
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Thank you, Nick!
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Often the truest place is right where and when you are, now.
Nice!
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Good point about the truest place being right where we are. Thank you, Liz!
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Very well done. Maybe someday i’ll have time to pursue this line of reasoning further, or maybe i’ll just wait for Heaven.
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Heaven is a great place to learn all about it. Thank you, Mimi!
I liked the thought of going to “play in the traffic” after one got tired of shopping in your story.
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A thought provoking story, Frank. Well done!
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Thank you, Mark! Blessings to you!
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