Blinded by the Light

It's a bird, it's a plane...it's a meteor?

Scientists were looking one way at an asteroid when a meteor surprised them from the other direction. Needless to say, those on the ground were the real ones to be surprised.  It was more than just an "event" that equaled 20x the Hiroshima bomb. For sure that was something!  The point is the sequence with which it happened.  There was a blinding light brighter than the sun (which is difficult to believe). Everyone raced to see what it was.  Then a full 3 mins later they were rocked by the sound wave. Windows shattered, buildings crashed--and that's where people got hurt. The time between the light (when they should have dove for cover) and the explosion of the sonic boom (which created so much collateral damage that hurt folks.) 

So what about that period of time between the blinding light and the explosion?  How does that sequence happen to us?  Take the annual physical--and the blinding of the test results.  Do we really do anything about them or do we wait for the explosion if we continue the same course?  Do the symptoms of broken relationships blind us to the light of their truth--and doing nothing, we end up shocked when those relationships end.  How about the blinding light of "life changing" experiences in which we "get over them" and settle back to the same routine? 

When have you been blinded by the light?  Has the sonic boom of reality crashed in on you later on? Or, did the sky light up the truth about your life so that you could do something to change your life for the better?  That's the irony--we who are blinded by the light get a second to see things as they really are--and the chance to do something with it.