the sky is on fire

I went outside to talk on the phone (cell phones in the boonies can be a pain in the ass inside) earlier this evening (around 7:30) and saw some flickering green lights in the sky to the North. Yes, the northern lights have made there was south to where we below the 45th parallel can see them.

I have seen them before, but not like tonight. Usually, they are like lightly colored curtains, silently flapping in the breeze somewhere to the North, but tonight they fill up the northern three-quarters of the sky in a hauntingly pale show that resembles more of a fire burning white-hot than anything else. You can see the energy of the sun pulsating through the wisps as they come and go all around. It is more eerie than beautiful...like the sky is on fire.

It makes me wonder if God is not mad that we have done what we've done as a nation in the past few weeks. A horrible omen of future retribution, a preminition of our fate.