Sunshine

Have you ever felt the warmth of sunshine on your back?

Did it feel good?

Did it feel like being hugged in a warm embrace from life itself?
Mmmm!

Did you enjoy that moment of joy?
Did you take it for granted?
Or did you really appreciate that kiss of life?

Wait, the light and warmth of the sun is life

Sunshine is life, without it we would not have a life.
Because without this electromagnetic energy there would be no light or warmth or LIFE as we know it.

Do we really appreciate the enormity of feeling the warmth of sunshine?
Or the profound nature of that kiss of life?

Every electromagnetic spectral hug you feel...

...has travelled 93 million miles in just over 8 minutes.
Awesome! That’s like us traveling around the earth over 1800 times in 8 minutes.

But wait, that wasn’t all...

That beautiful warm energy went through even more to reach you and hug you.
Before that epic skip to earth, it had to travel to the edge of our solar system and bounce off the fabric of interstellar space.

Way to go! Amazing!

Still not all...

That energy needed to travel through the sun itself.
And that took … a while, what do you reckon?

170,000 years...

It took around 170,000 years to reach the sun’s surface where it had enough speed to break free from the sun’s gravity.
And become the emitted charged particles that we experience as sunshine.

That’s like someone from the middle paleolithic age walking through the millennia to reach the 21st century. All in order to break free from stone age living and blast off into space. For even more travelling in order to return and give you a hug.

Incredible!

Before that? A nuclear birth.

Before that energy could find its way to the surface it had to endure a chain reaction from nuclear fusion.
That particle of sunshine was literally birthed in the density of the sun’s core where hydrogen atoms collided with such force that they melted into helium!

We live in the sun’s atmosphere

Our earth, including its atmosphere, effectively lives in the sun’s atmosphere.
So we too effectively live in the atmosphere of the sun.

The warm embrace

We live in the warm embrace of sunlight.
Where the sun is continually blowing us kisses of life and hugging us with its warmth.

Let that sink in…

Every 1.5 millionth of a second the sun releases more energy than all humans consume in a year.

Let’s take a moment to appreciate sunshine.

To appreciate the journey.

Let’s celebrate the brilliant opportunity to thrive in such a beautiful place within such an abundant space.