- I was inspired to write this after I watched the Perseid meteor shower. It was remarkable! The sky alone, without shooting stars, is beautiful, but this night made me so happy. It was even better that I got to share it with my boyfriend! I felt as though I didn’t have a care in the world…I love getting lost like that, in the moment. It’s such a great feeling.
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Since I was a little girl, I have always been fascinated with astronomy. I can remember driving home from long trips with the family and being in our car, confined by nothing but luggage and two younger sisters who irritated me, yet somehow I was still able to find peace and serenity. I would just stare out the window forever. Those dark, clear nights captivated me as I gazed out, up into the sky, mesmerized by the beauty of the night. In fact, there was this one song by Vanessa Williams that I loved growing up and would always sing in the car; it was called “Save the best for last”. I didn’t love it because of the message of the song, although it is moving, I loved it because there was one line that I remembered and sang over and over again...“Sometimes the sun goes ‘round the moon”. I can recall singing that line repeatedly. I don’t know why, I just did. I guess it had to do with my love for outer space.
More recently, I have started to realize that my passion and love for space isn’t to pursue a future career in but rather to learn how to better appreciate, love, and understand the Creator that I serve and worship. I am continually reminded of God’s wonder and mystery revealed in His creation. I often ask myself how people can go through any given day and not believe. I can’t help but notice the world around me and admire its beauty. I marvel at God’s works. I am humbled to be a part of His creation and have admittance to His magnificent handiwork. I love that at any moment we can access oceans that contain massive waves crashing against jagged rocks and mountains that soar so high making it hard to breathe at their peaks and running waterfalls that overflow with breathtaking beauty and extinct animals that can only be found in remote areas of this world. It amazes me. If we would take more time to simply open up our eyes and acknowledge the beautiful creation that God made, we may learn how to better love and understand the God who created us along with the environment we find ourselves in; because He is an amazing Creator and He makes no mistakes.
Psalm 139: 1-18
"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.
You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say,
"Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake, I am still with you."
