Star light, star bright, I don’t know what I think I might . . .
I wondered today if the part of God’s attention toward us and the creation is not a very small part of the total of all that God pays attention to. We think of his attention toward us as if that is all he has to do. In fact, whatever part of his “time” he spends on us, however small, is 100% of all the time we have. We have our being in him, not he in us. How can we hope to comprehend the boundaries of God? Can we say things about him the way we so confidently say we know about distant stars? We say how big they and how far they are and how hot they are and what they are made of by using only an infinitesimal speck of light gathered through a telescope and processed through a spectrometer. We start with what we have in front of us on earth (as in helium gas and a prism) and presume the same rules apply uniformly throughout the universe.
Starting with Copernicus it takes a large highly educated group of us many decades and millions of dollars to do it.
Unlike the stars, which hardly give us anything, God has given us the Bible which provides us much more than a few bands of differing color.
