I’m far from a philosopher but I am absolutely a believer in God and in His creation of the universe. So when David read Carl Sagan’s famous quote to me, it did strike a chord. Carl Sagan is not someone you want to base your beliefs on. I’ve not read too much about him, but from what I have seen, he was a mixed up scientist who spent his life searching for answers. He died young (aged 62). He may have believed in God. There was enough evidence for him to have done so, for he is the author of this piece on the Pale Blue Dot based on this incredible photo. Wiki explains “Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers, as part of that day’s Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.” Can you see it? It’s the tiny dot in the far right shaft of light.
That is earth.
Carl Sagan wrote: “On it, everyone you ever heard of…The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. . . . Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot”. Carl Sagan, Cornell lecture in 1994[60]
Look at it again.
When I see that pale blue dot, I am reminded of Psalm 8 vss 3, 4 & 9.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them? Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
As the earth is suspended in the universe, occupying a tiny pixel, so we are suspended in time, occupying a fraction of a moment in eternal life.
Today has been a busy day. I was out of routine, in that I couldn’t get to gym early because I had a Skype training session. The main meeting of the day followed as Mike and I went to Echo to meet the lady who will be completing our house plans and walking them through Council. We wanted to speak to her before we decided to accept her quote. We will meet with her again on Thursday when Julian is here. Then she will get on with the plans and hopefully they will be submitted by the end of September. God willing we will be able to start building in April 2019 at the latest. If all goes according to plan, we *may* be able to move in in time for Christmas 2019 or Easter 2020! The first real money of the build is about to be transferred into her account. R8000 deposit.
As soon as we got home from that meeting, I went back to work and worked until 3-45pm when I skedaddled off to gym. I got home at 5pm and have had a bit of a break since.
I’m going back to work in just a bit.
#769 of my 1000 thanks is that we handed over the plans!
Psalm 73:28
As for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge; I will tell of all Your deeds.
These are the days.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Gym:
- 11 minutes – I did a fitness test but forgot to put in my age and it got the gender wrong. It told me my fitness was FAIR for a 30-39 year old MALE! I’ll take that!
- 10 minutes on the stepper
- 20 minutes super circuit
- 21 minutes other weight machines.