Moving Towards Herd Immunity and What We Have Gained from the Pandemic Year

"Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though in darkness, the Lord will be my light!" (Micah 7:8-9)

I love that quote from Scripture...I love to journal using Scripture passages and I will certainly use that one. My friend who is a psychologist recently wrote an article for the Church bulletin beginning her article with that quote so I'll borrow it! She wrote about surviving the pandemic and 2020 and what we have lost and what we have gained. There have been some silver linings, for those of us who have survived. It was an unimaginable year, but prayer and my deep faith (and my granddaughters who give me joy), helped me through it.  Everyone got through it in their own ways. Sadly, tragically there was too much loss and sadness. 

This Sunday I will attend a virtual baby shower on Zoom, its a whole new world and so many of us were "forced" online for Scripture study, meetings and celebrations. 

The Lord is certainly my light, my go to friend, the one I can trust in good times and bad. And so as we all march forward into the future, hopefully a future full of hope (and herd immunity!) we can breathe a sigh of relief that the worst is behind us and a technologically advanced world is coming quickly and we will all have to adjust to the "new normal." We will just have to bring God with us into this new future that awaits. 

Nancy

UnExplained Light in the Universe-What Is It? Look in Genesis

I just loved the subject of the last blog entry about scientists finding unexplainable light in the Universe. Light where there should be darkness. As I explained in the previous blog post on January 1st of this new year, I got very excited about it. It seemed to me that astronomers and physicists had stumbled upon the "light" of the Cosmic Christ. I have studied (and given talks) on the works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French Jesuit priest, theologian, scientist, author and more) and of course he wrote and spoke a lot about the Cosmic Christ and his explanations have given me great hope on the spiritual journey. He died in 1955, but his thought through his works is very much alive. He found a way to integrate science with religion, especially Christianity. 

So unexplained light in the Universe had me thinking, Jesus said clearly, "I am the light." "I am the light of the world." 

I belong to a couple of Scripture study groups. I love Scripture study and couldn't live without the "nourishment" I get from them. One of the groups that meets on Zoom (for the present time), has just begun reading "Genesis." And so right there in the opening words of the Bible, "The Story of Creation," begins like this...

"In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth-and the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters-Then God said: Let there be light and there was light. God saw that the light was good. God then separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day: and the darkness he called "night". Evening came and morning followed-the first day."

The first day in the opening words of the Bible we find the creation of light. Light in the Universe, light in our world. Light. Thousands of years later, after God's inspired Word was written down, scientists find unexplainable light in the dark recesses of the Universe......Love it!!

Nancy

Perhaps God's Glow Found In The Universe-Cosmic Christ is Light

 I termed the phrase God's glow, I thought it fit the description of what I read about. It seems astronomers according to a New York Times article I read ("In the Darkness of Empty Space, Unexpected Light" 12/8/20) have found empty space in the Universe that was about twice as bright as would be expected. Unexpected light they say, "four billion miles from the sun, far from bright planets and light scattered by interplanetary dust..." "There's something out there unknown....."

Right away my mind started thinking about this. Because you know, when Jesus said, "I am the light of the world," He wasn't just speaking metaphorically. Jesus, the Cosmic Christ is light and so it would seem natural for me, to think the unexpected light they've found is the light of Christ or God's glow as I termed it.

Sounds a bit crazy......maybe, maybe not. Light deep in the Universe of unknown origin and astronomers and particle physicists have no idea where it's coming from. 

"This kind of measurement really pushes our understanding of both the instrument and the brightness of the light from all the stuff between us and the distant universe, Dr. Zemcov said in an email. 'People have posited a variety of sources, but the jury is still out on what it could be.'" 

They should give me a call, I'll tell them what it is. 

Nancy