The Vast Unknown.

Look around you.

What do you see? Bustling people, people going around their own lives.

Sometimes you feel like the top of the world. But when you really think about it, there is SO much out there in the world.

Not just, America. Not just Earth. our UNIVERSE.

If you think about it, compared to the complete billions and trillions of stars in the sky, we’re pretty small. Yeah, when I say this, don’t you feel so small? So.. insignificant?

I was having a conversation about this with a group of people the other day.

Beyond our Earth, beyond the horizons, beyond what our eyes can see, is the vast unknown. I know that sounds cliche and extremely corny, but it’s true. What you see is just how much light has reached us. There could be SO MUCH MORE beyond what the naked eye can see, but it’ll take us millions of years before we actually see and can reach the things that are out there in our universe.

Right now, if you look up into the dark sky, you’ll see stars. I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but when you see a star, it’s already burned out. It’s just a dead star, and the light is JUST reaching us RIGHT now.

So, there could be SO much more out there beyond what we can see and beyond what we know. Beyond what we’ve heard, beyond what we’ve thought. It’s mind blowing, isn’t it? To think about how much more unknown space there is in the Universe around us, that we might not be able to even SEE or know about?

When we were talking about this, my friend claimed that he felt so small. His self esteem lowered greatly and felt so insignificant.

I’m here to say that I didn’t feel that way. When I heard that, I couldn’t help but smile. and I felt so hopeful, and I felt so happy. I just had this sense of hope inside me. Yes, I’m being corny and cheesy right now, but I like corn and cheese. Anyway. When I heard this, I couldn’t help but think how incredibly amazing God was.. for creating a universe like this, such a vast universe and space, what WONDERS, what beauty. Everything Glorious.

And we might not even be able to know about until a million years from now. But it’s out there. Just that feeling of the possibility of there being more out there is flabbergasting.

And it just gives me so much HOPE. There’s so much out there in the world for me to discover, for me to explore, for me to learn about. It makes me so excited.. that God had made this wonderful world for me to climb around, to discover, to learn, to explore on. And it gives me so much JOY that there’s this hope out there for me.. that there’s so much more in the world, not just the universe, but in Illinois. In America. In the WORLD. There’s so much more I can do and that just gives me so much hope.

There’s so much out there for every one of us to discover. And although we may seem small, and although we may be small, we’re not small in God’s eyes. We’re worthy. Worthy to be loved. and we ARE.

We may seem small and we may BE small, but God loves us all the same.

Now, does that not just make you so happy? :)