I admit, openly and without shame,
that I am a nerd. When I was growing up, I was very much a bookworm instead of
an athlete. Other kids had sports players as heroes; I had Carl Sagan. It was
he who inspired something that fascinates me to this day, and that is my love
of astronomy. One of my favorite places to go was the local planetarium. I am
always amazed at what new insights have been, and are being, discovered on a
daily basis (although, admittedly, many of the new ideas that have been birthed
were, and are, beyond my comprehension).
If I could afford to have a house
with an observatory on it, I would do it in a heartbeat – but for now, I’d have
to be content with getting a good telescope. Then again, I’d be so excited that
I’d hardly know where to start looking.
It makes good sense to look to the
heavens as a source of wonder. The psalmist wrote it best when he started Psalm
19 with, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of
his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal
knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the
world.” (Psalm 19:1-4a, NIV) The God who created the entire universe has also
given us the means to understand it and delight in it. May we use those gifts
with wisdom and reverence.
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