I have thought often of what to write about the photo that surely shatters all our current knowledge of space, time, and ourselves; the new photo taken by the James Webb Telescope. It is a photo of a part of space the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length. The photo shows what is 5.12 billion light years away, 13 billion years ago—thousands of galaxies, their light just reached me, Lee Benson, via a photograph. What is shattered is what is continually shattered, how creation reveals how little we are. Whether we look out toward the heavens or in toward the atoms all we keep finding is enormously more space. It seems we humans are fleas playing with our navel. But we are not, we are “fearfully and wonderfully made” to know God to “Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.” It just took us 13 billion years to find a few.
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