If it were dark I would take you outside and with the aid of
some optics, show you the heavens. Stars, Nebulae and galaxies spread out to
infinity, light displaying energy from the beginning of time, reaching us here
and now. Andromeda galaxy is about two and a half million light years away and
as we look at it, we are looking back to the age of the dinosaurs. Andromeda was
formed out of the collision of two smaller galaxies between 5 and 9 billion
years ago. These scales of measurement are often outside our natural thinking
and take some understanding.
In the beginning was God and nothing had its being without
Him, God in the brightness and God in the darkness; Gods presence in all
things. We focus and see easily the brightest of these stars and in the density
of the galaxies we see form and movement; God in the immense and God in the
smallest of detail. To see into deep space, it is necessary to have the darkest
of skies.
We see things in black and white, left or right, right or
wrong. Our evolution has been a sequence of choices, one way or another. Our
opinions and behaviour is decided by these choices, one way or another. Our
human need is for direction, we create a structure for how things will be; this
will suit some, but not all. Differences cause friction when they could produce
harmony, an orchestra consists of many instruments, musicians, a composer and a
conductor; a symphony could be likened to a galaxy. Many of these structures
exist; cultural, political and religious.
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