Monday, June 6, 2011

The Warrior, the Beast, and the Voice.

I was listening to music and looking at pictures one day, when I came up with an idea for a video. I had been looking at pictures from the Hubble Telescope and listening to the song "Angel" song by Jackie Evancho. Here is a link to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwSd6pd5UAQ

I was listening to that while looking at the pictures of space. It was really wonderous. So I got the idea to share that experience with everyone and make a video. Here it is:


Hubble Telescope - Angel - Jackie Evancho from Murry Folt on Vimeo.

[Edit: I had to upload the video to Vimeo because the original was taken of Youtube]

The reason I'm telling you all this? Because I am still wondering why it all happened; and at how good it turned out for how little work I put into it. I have a very strong feel the Creator wanted to show off a small aspect of his creation. So he guided my time so I would be listening to that song while looking at the Hubble pics, and then get the idea for the video. It really is quite an interesting thought, isn't it? And if you don't agree to my theory, and think it was just coincidence, then say something. I would like to have a good, respectable debate with someone. I won't change my mind, but it would still be fun.

Now, there is more reason to why I brought all of this up. Not just to say I made a video or how good I think it is, but to explain more of my thoughts behind it. This blog is called "De' Tinker's Thoughts", after all.

I find it very incredible that even with such high detailed pictures as the ones I found, there are still a poor representation at just how large and grand everything out there is. The largest picture I found was over 200 megabytes, and came out to being nearly half a billion pixels large. It may seem as though it showed a lot, but in reality, it showed an infinitely small portion of the universe. Yet, even the smallest nebulaes in the picture were likely hundreds or thousands of times the size of earth.

The purpose of this post is really just to try and comprehend how great the Creator is, as this post seems to be doing now. So you are about to read the same thoughts that go through my head. I'll just type out how amazing I think it is.

I still can't wrap my head around the size of some of the objects in these pictures! This one is my favorite:

Hubble Captures Spectacular  Landscape  in the Carina Nebula
Source: Hubblesite.org

How large is that field? I really don't know, and I don't want to cheat on Google. All I know is that it's larger than I can imagine. It looks like a painting. The vast amount of colors all flowing and blending together, the strange and exotic shapes, the bright points of light from stars, all of it! We are very fortunate that we found it, yet how many more grand paintings are we missing in a galaxy so large? I feel sorry for those who feel these are there without cause. I truly do.

Here is my favorite picture with a story in it that I see:

Hubble
Source: Hubblesite.org

I see it as a battle in the heavens. On the right we have one heavenly being who is bent down on one knee, with his back turned facing the left. He is using his back and arm as a shield to protect himself from the being on the left. This being on the right, who is red, appears large and muscular, with large beard and long hair. I imagine him as an old warrior, with grey hair, who has lived a long life of war. This warrior has power that can only exist in the vastness of the heavens. He is even more powerful the the gods and goddesses of the Greeks and Romans. He is a warrior of the stars.

On the left I see another heavenly being. It has the head of a bear, the wings of a dragon, and the arms of a great warrior. This being is attacking the warrior with a force that has put the great warrior on the defence. That great, bright light in the center is the blast issuing forth from the beasts's hands, and it spreads out and around the warrior on the right, who is defending himself. The beast has other heavenly forces surrounding him, which swirl around him as different colored lights and gases. They appear as strange shapes surrounding the beast.

The warrior also has other beings fighting with him. Both behind and in front of him, I see other faces moving towards the beast and his companions. Both these faces and the other beings behind the beast are as spirits it seems. The do not take forms we are used to. Even the beast and the warrior are as spirits, for neither of them look like anything we see on earth.

Okay, I let my imagination run wild up there, but that is what I see. There is so much more as well, I just can't find a way to describe it! And this was one picture! I have run out of words for this right now, but maybe another time. So for now, I will discuss the music!

The little girl who sang the song, Jackie Evancho, is only 11. Or at least at the time both that PBS performance was shot and this post was made, she was 11. I hope she will live well beyond that. Anyway, I find it difficult to describe the music now as well! The Creator seemed to have taken one of these spirits, or beings, or something from the heavens above, and put it in this little girl when she was a baby. Just as the warrior and beast I mentioned above can't be contained on earth, it seems this voice can't either. I believe this to be so because the Creator Himself sings with her every time. This is why when people hear her, they immediately describe it as heavenly, angelic, and beautiful.

Her voice in adding to the grandeur of this video is amazing! Many of the words in the song also fit perfectly with the images. I didn't pick the song either. It is what I "happened" to be listening to at the time. Take a guess at who really picked the song? Jackie really adds the heavenly touch to these pictures. Either are great by themselves, but together they are wonderful as well! After describing the battle above, I don't have the words to describe the voice narrating it. Well, maybe another time. I might make a whole post just for this "Angel" among us, as many like to say.

One final closing thought. That video I posted above, I didn't make it. I couldn't have. Yes, I downloaded the pictures, I put them in the video, I put the music on, I rendered the video, I uploaded it to youtube, all of that. By I didn't make it. The Alighty did. He wants people to look up to Him once again and simply say, "Holy, holy, holy..." He is tired of those who can look at His creation and say, "There is no God!" He gave us these beautiful landscapes in the heavens, and he gave us what many call "an angel among us", Jackie, to bless us with her voice. Yet people deny Him. Is that why my video exists?

3 comments:

  1. What did you think of my description of the warrior and beast?

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  2. Strange to say I only saw a very peaceful scene with Jackie's voice in the background reinforcing the calmness that overtook me as I watched this marvel of creation both in sight and sound. Incredible video.

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