Magic

15.30 | There was supposed to a meteor shower tonight and even though I thought I saw a couple of falling meteors I didn't see much. I was a little disappointed but I was reminded of a couple of other things that I did awhile back.

Late in the Summer I went driving around downtown St. Paul with a few friends. It was a beautiful night for a drive in the Mustang convertible. The city is a beautiful place and I wouldn't mind living in a place like that someday. We drove by the St. Paul Cathedral and the State Capitol.

The city lights with the combination of the music made it wonderful. At that moment the music was magic. The bass didn't matter. The treble didn't matter. It was just music and words to a tune. The city lights and the cool Minnesota summer air added to the serenity of the night. Skyscrapers where you had to look straight up in order to see the top against the large black backdrop were more amazing than before.

Magic tricks. They say they are just an illusion. So what makes one night more spectacular than the other one? Is it all just an illusion to our own imagination or is it something more than magic?

A night like this doesn't just come along by chance or luck. There are too many factors that cannot be explained to just happen by chance. The time, the weather, the day, the music, the lights, and the sights. This was no magic but something more, something powerful, some kind of Creator.

Later that summer I was with the same friends in the middle of a lake in the middle of the night watching the stars. It wasn't just the stars but it was the whole Milky way. The bonus was that the moon wasn't out so it made the stars shine even more. It was a canvas of white dots painted all over. I had never seen so many stars before. My friends and I sat there looking at the sky for a good hour.

That was magic and that was no illusion.