What do you see? We see one image a night of outer space produced by the Hubble and James White telescopes. It is a part of our Advent celebration. These two images are from the night before last and last night. What do you see? I see a declaration of glory so unfathomable it demands worship. True worship. I cannot turn away from this. I cannot toss it aside like so many images. It stops me cold confronts me with holiness. How can I believe in something so beautiful beyond all beauty I have ever known? But the answer to this question and all life others is so simple as to bring my mind to solemn stillness. It is the Christ Child, the I AM, the one who is said of, “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” It is like seeing the sculpture of David and thinking it’s amazing instead of Michelangelo. The amazing Christ Child, my mind “in solemn stillness lay, to hear the angels sing. Still through the clovern skies they come with peaceful wings unfurled, and still their heavenly music floats o’er all the weary world…”
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