Dear Brother's and Sister's in Christ,
My fascination with space and physiology has always been that since as a small boy I studied the stars. Draco was a favorite of mine, I recently learned that the term Draco relates to the Milky Way in another way.
The image here of the Galaxy we are in really puts what I will call God's fingerprint into perspective for me. If you look closely above Orion Spur is our star, the Sun. A few years ago NASA launched Kepler, a telescope up in our Earth's orbit. The posted image shows the area of Kepler's focus. That area is 3000 light years in approximate distance. Within that area approximately 500 earth-like planets candidates where identified. Everything is relative and among 400 billion or more stars it is incomprehensible as to just how awesome God's Kingdom really is. What always amazes me, is that God even cares enough about something as small as this man kind. This picture you see, is God's playground.
God made all this for God, not us. We will expand on that and even the notion of TIME.
Let's just author this: TIME DOES NOT EXIST. so that measurement of light years or even that the halo of the milky way is approx 10-15 billion years old, or that it took the earth 250 million to circle the galaxy are reference points for our minds to anchor to. Sure there are mathematics and scientists that try to prove all this, but logic of and in itself is limited. the gap between logic and ultimate truth is "non-logic". logic is the tip of the iceberg, but incomprehensible and even larger is "non-logic".
Even that galaxy is comprised of the nautical spiral [also see Golden Mean, Half Moon Bay]. Evidence that God is big is before you. Faith is the unseen, unknown, is a key element where one has a "non-logical" relationship with God.
Even that galaxy is comprised of the nautical spiral [also see Golden Mean, Half Moon Bay]. Evidence that God is big is before you. Faith is the unseen, unknown, is a key element where one has a "non-logical" relationship with God.
Just like we need TIME to anchor [cause and effect]. God comes to earth in the form of man as Jesus. This was to give us something to anchor to and relate to. Nothing about faith is logical, yet again, everything is relative.
Imagine that our logic only represents the Kepler Search Space of 3000 light years pictured above. Of and in itself that seems BIG. Yet it is only the smaller RELATIVE component when compared in reference to the galaxy, where Faith, the "non-logic" component represents the rest.
That, my brother's and sister's is a key to HOW LIFE WORKS. When you want something too much, it seems too difficult to attain. The most logical, well thought out plans, fall apart. That Tuesday afternoon "unexpected" disaster. The black swan. The highly improbable high impact event that was never supposed to happen.
This Galaxy we are a small part of, and to a larger degree life in general, is one part logic, and 99 parts, "non-logic". That is where faith comes fills the gap.
Heaven makes life on earth seem boring and our life one part HERE and 99 parts THERE.
Your Brother in Christ,
Luke, author
LAMP [Light at my path]
08.24.2010 at 10:14pm
I find scripture to reaffirm these writings after they where written upon here randomly hereafter in 1 Corinthians Chapter 2 verse 1-16
LAMP [Light at my path]
08.24.2010 at 10:14pm
I find scripture to reaffirm these writings after they where written upon here randomly hereafter in 1 Corinthians Chapter 2 verse 1-16
Below is more information about the space mission:
Kepler in Brief
... NASA's first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets around other stars.
Importance of Planet Detection
The centuries-old quest for other worlds like our Earth has been rejuvenated by the intense excitement and popular interest surrounding the discovery of hundreds of planets orbiting other stars.
There is now clear evidence for substantial numbers of three types of exoplanets; gas giants, hot-super-Earths in short period orbits, and ice giants. The following websites are tracking the day-by-day increase in new discoveries and are providing information on the characteristics of the planets as well as those of the stars they orbit: Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia, New Worlds Atlas,, and Current Planet Count Widget.
The challenge now is to find terrestrial planets (i.e., those one half to twice the size of the Earth), especially those in the habitable zone of their stars where liquid water and possibly life might exist.
The Kepler Mission, NASA Discovery mission #10, is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets.
Results from this mission will allow us to place our solar system within the continuum of planetary systems in the Galaxy.
