Human brilliance is so much dirt in a corner unless it is polished and honed. “Shoot for the moon,” the grammar school posters read, “even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” But the moon and stars demand our awe by their very nature as God’s creation. Yes, the celestial bodies shine down in brilliance on our temples of mud. Placed there by God’s hands as sentinels and witnesses to our depravity, revealing to our ancestors night after night the splendor of Creation. The stars do not care that they repeat their show in the sky night after night, season after season, year after year in perpetuity—they continue saying what they say without preface or qualification. No need for any “it’s been said before but..” Celestial brilliance truly does go without saying.
shooting for the moon
shooting for the moon
shooting for the moon
Human brilliance is so much dirt in a corner unless it is polished and honed. “Shoot for the moon,” the grammar school posters read, “even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” But the moon and stars demand our awe by their very nature as God’s creation. Yes, the celestial bodies shine down in brilliance on our temples of mud. Placed there by God’s hands as sentinels and witnesses to our depravity, revealing to our ancestors night after night the splendor of Creation. The stars do not care that they repeat their show in the sky night after night, season after season, year after year in perpetuity—they continue saying what they say without preface or qualification. No need for any “it’s been said before but..” Celestial brilliance truly does go without saying.