I have from time to time made referrences to the “Red Sky”. I think only one person really knows what I mean when I say it. The Red Sky is a term that I have attached to the emotion that comes with the synergistic hell of ultimate betrayal and confoundment.
I named it after an analogy I once used to try and describe the emotions and feelings that come with the realization that something you have considered for so long to be the truth, is not the truth at all.
For example. If I ask you, “What color is the sky?” You would say blue without hesitation. As you know, it is blue. You’ve known this trivial fact your entire life. It is a given. That’s the way it is.
Then one day you wake up, get ready for work or school, and when you step outside. The sky is red. Can this be real? “No. It can’t be!” you tell yourself. You squeeze your eyes shut and deny it will all the will of your being. And when you tire of the futile fight to maintain your hold on “reality”, you open your eyes back up — and the sky is still red.
God. Love. The Universe. The Ultimate Question.
All these things have the potential to fall into the Red Sky catagory. Imagine what would happen to a life long devoted Christian if they found out that God didn’t exist. Imagine how confusing it would be to go to sleep at your friends house and wake up in a tent in Antartica. And my favorite, imagine the feeling of your heart failing to beat for an entire minute when you learn that the one you confided in, trusted, and loved the most was the one who stabbed you in the back and left you for someone you always considered to be inferior.
That’s the feeling I speak of. Believing something with everything that you are, then discovering you were wrong.