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Sunday, June 25, 2006
Jewels in place
By Leticia Suarez-Orendain
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of god was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.”
Man wonders. How can such a simply structured command generate the catalyst that started it all?
The heavens (space as we call it) came to be and in it our own planet earth, a blue jewel that nurtures life.
How immense is this limitless space, with all the various jewels we call the moon, the stars and constellations, the planets, the galaxies—and a host of other heavenly amazements that push man to ponder upon his existence.
When a star explodes, a nebula results. Man can say that the Crab Nebula, for example, was of a supernova seen in 1054 AD. Photos of it, like the one by Walter Nowotny who used a Nordic optical telescope, bring it closer to man.
Yet no matter how he explains the cause of the stars, he only journeys further into his ignorance.
How small, then, is this limitless space when compared to the majesty of the Creator. Man’s mind can’t even begin to comprehend this magnitude from his standpoint on earth. St. Augustine likens this to the little boy pouring water into a hole in the sand.
Man is awestruck by the quiet testament of the passing of the ages in the Grand Canyon and the perfect image of beauty in the Mayon Volcano. He can hardly understand how such marvels could come to be; so how much more pouring infinite space into his cranium.
Perhaps, man can cherish and take care better of his earth and all that surround it from afar when he begins to distance himself from all his cares.
That which he loves most of this earth will then be clearer to him as the mountain is to the climber from the valley.
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