Shine Jesus Shine

"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being." Revelation 4:11

Our sun is the most magnificent star in our God's Great Galaxy (that I know of). Amazingly not our largest by huge margins and certainly not our smallest, but the very energy source of all living thing we see, smell, feel, taste, and hear. As if I am not enthralled enough by its sheer size, distance from the Earth, and the broad rainbow of colors splayed across the the sky when it meets and greet the horizon. But the warmth we feel, stepping out from the shaded shadow of the high rises is power generated from nuclear fusion...isn't this sufficient to amaze?

A massive dense fiery ball of burning gases, plasma, dust, and particles from other dying stars and elements of burned out supernovas, it formed nearly five million years ago and the centerpiece of our world.

Thankfully, it magnificently shone through the golden locust outside our fire escape window this balmy November morning beckoning an early start to a wide open day of Manhattan Wonder. In our eyes walking East for a blazing hot and soft New York Bagel, against our backs meandering through the bright yellow ginkgo filled Ramble ablaze in Central Park, above us ascending the cozy limestone steps of the Natural History Museum revealing the patina in T.R's sword, and setting over the Jackie Onassis Reservoir as the red-tail hawks hunted hungrily on the edge. A constant solar companion to us and a breathtaking daily reminder that He controls it all.

Makes me feel small, humbled, and insignificant in the scheme of His wondrous plan, realizing it doesn't rise and shine just for me.

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis

Still think you're the center of the Universe?

--Journey to the Stars- a fascinating physics based simulated visual spectacular at the Planetarium will change the way you look at our night sky....so engrossing Whoopi's voice won't phase you.