Sometimes you hear someone talking about our insignificance as compared to the vastness of space. As it revealed more and more of the universe that in comparison we should reflect on our overall insignificance.
Stephen Hawking said that we are “just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting round a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies.”
This morning after reading the first reading for Mass today I was reflecting on “So shall my word be/ that goes forth from my mouth;/ It shall not return to me void,/ but shall do my will,/ achieving the end for which I sent it.” from Isaiah 55.
This had me thinking about along the ends of which God has created us to give him glory. We do not invent our purpose, but discover it in his will for us. The vastness of the universe and all creation are of little importance compared to the love that we receive and give. It is God’s love for us that is so vast that is the genuine wonder that should make us fall to our knees in gratitude. Reflecting on creation and the universe shows us God’s creative love that has no bounds. We can find beauty looking at the material aspects of the cosmos and, more so, turning to its author.
The Gospel reading for today is where Jesus teaches us the “Our Father.” Let us be stunned by the vastness of the universe, but more stunned that we are called to this relationship to the Trinity. There is nothing insignificant about this regarding every single person called to this. The universe has nothing for us compared to the transforming union that God calls us to.
