The Kindness of Sharing Space

In my freshman-level 3-D class we have begun the section on Space.  Space, the actual and perceived areas in which all exist is enormous in all directions.  If we look outward toward the macro there is seemingly no end and if we look inward toward the micro the same seems to be true, ongoing, every increasing largeness and smallness.  The better equipment we invent to see these spaces the more of it we discover.  Infinity in every direction is the norm.  However, we are very limited in the space we can actually occupy.  We have made it to the moon, which in the expanse of the cosmos isn’t truly going anywhere and we cannot occupy any of the spaces in the micro.  And none of this accounts for the transcendent spaces that are better known by our hearts than our rulers, the Grand Canyon and Saint Louis Cathedral come to mind.  As an artist-teacher, it is all this space I am trying to get my students to acknowledge to meet my objective for them, which is to live in an all-consuming personal relationship of love, gratefulness, and praise with Him who conceived of all this, created it, and is kind enough to share.

That white dot is an image of our space, Earth, taken by
the Voyager spacecraft.