tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594674.post-21605511321971744342007-11-05T22:06:00.001-06:002007-11-06T19:18:48.411-06:00<h2>Perspective</h2> <div align="center"><img src="http://homepage.mac.com/jfstrain/blogpics3/11.07/sombrerogalaxy.jpg" alt="Sombrero Galaxy" target="resource" height="252" width="450" hspace="5" vspace="5"></div> This is a photo of the Sombrero Galaxy or M104 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is in the constellation Virgo and cannot be seen by the naked eye. It can be seen with binoculars - just a little speck in the night sky. Now consider that speck is 28 million light years away from the earth. It is equalivant to more than 800 billion suns. Were you to travel from one edge of the Sombrero Galaxy to the other, it would take you 50,000 years traveling at the speed of light. Now consider this galaxy that shows up as a faint piece of lint in the night is but one pixel on a huge canvas that is the night sky. Our star, the Sun is just one of 200 billion stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy. There are 150 billion galaxies in the universe. Does that make you feel small and insignificant? Does that give you some new perspective on those things about which you worry? To think. The God who created it all loved us so much that he gave his only Son. Small and insignificant as compared to the size of the universe is not equal to unlovable and valueless. When I consider myself compared to the universe I feel humble. When I think about God loving me I feel grateful. What are worries compared to these truths? That was a rhetorical question. <blockquote>When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? -Psalm 8: 3-4</blockquote> Until the next time John StrainJohn Strainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05453617294405385771noreply@blogger.com