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The Pale Blue Dot

Cool Picture, huh? Have you seen this before?

This is a picture taken back in 1990 by the Voyager 1 looking back to Earth as it continues its travels. It's called "The Pale Blue Dot". Do you see that tiny blue spec on the fourth ray that almost looks like a flaw on the lens? That is Earth.

Um... We're small in a vast and amazing Cosmos!

The Atheist Scientist Carl Sagan said about this picture:

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, 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.

The man has  point. But he looked at that little dot rather hopeless, and though it makes you feel very, very small it also helps me put things in perspective. I am small, God is big! He really, really y BIG! He made all those people I've loved, and every hero, and every superstar, He made every star on the sky and He knows them by name. He knows me by name... and, in that vast Cosmos and beyond, HE REIGNS! What a marvel to be able to put things in perspective thanks to the science of astronomy!

The heavens really declare the Glory of the All Mighty God! And there is so much more that's still being explored. No problem is too big, no circumstance to overwhelming for our God. Yaaay! Isn't that a relief?