I appreciate the way that the author explained our connection with the universe in the article below. Very refreshing.

 

The cosmos and your part in the divine adventure


According to current cosmology, in the time it takes to read this sentence, the universe has expanded by another million miles or so. “Unlimited horizons” might be a good way to describe such a universe.

It has only been over the past 170 years or so that astronomers have begun to realize how vast the stellar universe we live in is, as they first began to measure the distances to the nearest stars. This created an immense contrast. Compared with the view of ourselves as material, limited and earthbound, the universe would seem too vast in space and time for us to be of any consequence whatsoever.

Our little Sun explodes the equivalent of 80 billion hydrogen bombs inside itself every second to bring its rays to our cheeks and feed the flowers. The sunshine you’re getting today was made almost 10 million years ago (now, that’s planning ahead!). But it took that long for it to get to the Sun’s surface.

Trillions of these stellar cities fill the universe.

Our little planet swings around this solar star at almost 20 miles every second amongst a vast city of hundreds of billions of other stars, and trillions of these stellar cities fill the universe we can see with telescopes. How truly the Psalmist could sing about the Creator of all this: “He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.” Clearly, the statement in Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health rings true —“Suns and planets teach grand lessons.” One cannot read the stars and planets without being awed by the infinitude of the intelligent Source of creation.

But what about our place in all this? Where can we fit in if everything is so vast? In his Sermon on the Mount, found in the New Testament of the Bible, Jesus refers to the Creator as his “Father.” And this is where everyone fits into the family. Jesus also taught that the Creator of the universe was our Father as well! In these chapters, he refers to God as “Father” 17 times, ten times saying “our heavenly Father” or “our Father which is in heaven.” The fact is, we all have an innate relationship with God—the Creator of suns, the Twirler of galaxies, the Opener of flowers.

Mary Baker Eddy once wrote, “We live in an age of Love’s divine adventure to be All-in-all.” For me, this “adventure” is discovering our family in the universal home of infinite Mind, exploring the constantly unfolding wonders of omnipresent Love, feeling the unlimited freedom of eternal Truth. Our only and actual life-experience is this all-encompassing adventure of divine Love—and that, to me, is the meaning of “All-in-all.”

The important point is not to feel alienated or dwarfed.

This brings us to the two little spacecrafts that landed on the surface of Mars. The Mars Exploration Rover mission exemplifies a developing realization of our higher nature as children of an infinite Father. The important point is not to feel alienated or dwarfed by the immensity of the universe. Eddy’s concept of the universe supports this when she wrote, “The infinite will not be buried in the finite; the true thought escapes from the inward to the outward, and this is the only right activity, that whereby we reach our higher nature.”

We reach for the stars because God has already handed them to us, and because it is our purpose—with all creation—to be the boundless children of our infinite Parent, Creator of all. The humble joy we saw on the faces of the scientists as each spacecraft landed on Mars—that’s an unmistakable sign that Love’s divine adventure is ours to live.

 

Source: spirituality.com