Are You Ever Amazed... I Am

  Have you ever though about how small we are in the grand scheme of things in God's economy?  We have great significant insignificance with God.  I want to show you some pictures I got from NASA which are just amazing to think about.  The God I speak to on a daily basis and serve and try hard to follow created these things.  The scripture tells us that God holds the universe in His hands.  And (we) in our big machines, space ships and much more cannot even see the beginning of God's universe.  We measure everything in the universe my a light year which is 5.888 trillion miles.  How crazy is that?  Our galaxy the Milky Way which is one of millions of galaxies is 100,000 light years away thick in diameter (100,000 x 5,888,000,000).  This number is crazy and that alone is just our little neighborhood amongst millions of neighborhoods.

Check this excerpt out...

On October 13, 1994, the famous astronomer Carl Sagan was delivering a public lecture at his own university of Cornell. During that lecture, he presented this photo:

 

The photo above was taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it sailed away from Earth, more than 4 billion miles in the distance. Having completed its primary mission, Voyager at that time was on its way out of the Solar System, on a trajectory of approximately 32 degrees above the plane of the Solar System. Ground Control issued commands for the distant space craft to turn around and, looking back, take photos of each of the planets it had visited. From Voyager's vast distance, the Earth was captured as a infinitesimal point of light (between the two white tick marks), actually smaller than a single pixel of the photo. The image was taken with a narrow angle camera lens, with the Sun quite close to the field of view. Quite by accident, the Earth was captured in one of the scattered light rays caused by taking the image at an angle so close to the Sun. Dr. Sagan was quite moved by this image of our tiny world. Here is an enlargement of the area around our Pale Blue Dot and an excerpt from the late Dr. Sagan's talk:

"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. 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.

Isn't this crazy.  I love the portion from the book it puts a lot of things in perspective for me to realize my insignificant significance with God.  He is that big and created all of that am loves me like crazy.  Thank You!  Below are more pictures for you to enjoy!