Thursday, April 5, 2012

Carl Sagan, A Jewish Prophet?


II Kings 1-3

The great Jewish prophet, Elijah, passes on his ministry to Elisha and is taken to heaven in a chariot made of fire teamed by horses made of the same.  Two female bears maul 42 smart aleck kids and water fills a valley full of blood.  These chapters record the Divine weaving Itself into the time, light and matter of our cosmos.

Carl Sagan, the great astronomer and astrophysics now deceased, once said, “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.” He was making a statement of faith and was, unknowingly, dancing with God.  God, Maker of heaven and earth, is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, always was, always is, always will be. 

I love it when God, The Divine, weaves Himself into the world creating fiery chariots.  Even now, my porch is slowly turning east at about 900 mph toward a fiery ball whose light and warmth will top the hill behind me at 186,000 miles per second and day will begin…all this while the birds in my back yard quietly hum the Hallelujah Chorus. 

Carl Sagan, a Ukrainian Jew, would have made a great Jewish Prophet.  


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