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Eclipse's wonder doesn't outshine God's

by CAROL SHIRK KNAPP / Contributing Writer
| April 10, 2024 1:00 AM

As great as all the coverage was this week on the total solar eclipse, I didn't hear anything about the maker of it all.

North Idaho wasn't in the high-end eclipse path — so I didn't really prepare for it. At the last minute Monday morning, my husband ran to the hardware store for a darker lens for the welding goggles, so I'd have safe viewing for whatever there was to see.

I set up a chair outside beneath the clouds, not too hopeful. They looked thick and dark. But it paid off. With thin clouds obscuring it, the sun was briefly visible enough that I caught the rounded, defined shadow of the moon on a tiny fraction of its surface.

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