World Without End

In the last several months, my liberal arts brain has been getting more exposure to science and math.  The neural highways that are usually filled with literature and history have taken some fun side trips to thoughts of gravity, matter, black holes and infinity. 

On these side trips, the view out the window is a vast, dark, ever expanding universe, lit with trillions of stars and galaxies, billions light years away.  It's an old, old place, of incomprehensible size, where matter cannot be destroyed.  Every atom that makes each of us who we are, will always be.  When we're gone, the atoms simply will form different things, coming together again in infinite ways.

It's still a huge mystery.  As is the mystery of what makes our minds and our spirits....the things that anchor us to the here and now, and to each other.  We're all connected as human beings on planet earth...and we are all connected to and part of the big, vast mystery of the universe with everyone and everything that ever has been and ever will be.

On the one hand, it makes humankind seem tiny and insignificant.  On the other, it seems like an amazing gift that we are together in the here and now...and we can make the decision to choose love over hate, peace over war, and sharing over greed to make the best use of our brief but precious time on Earth.    

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Judy is ever grateful to be able to share her tiny speck of the universe with the Peace Church family.