There was some excitement among staff and
students last week with the latest expedition to
Mars. It is fascinating to see images from 500
million kms away being streamed back to earth. It
seems amazing that we can communicate that far,
and it works! (Even though areas of Ontario still
don’t have great cell reception and rural internet
isn’t great, but we’ll leave that alone today). A
distance that large is something that we can’t really
make sense of since it is so far beyond our daily,
earthly experience of space and time. I figured out
this morning that it is roughly 12,000 times around
the equator. Somewhat helpful, but still hard to
comprehend.
As much as we can accurately know, that six month trek of the expedition is 0.0000000005% of the way
across the Milk Way. Our little home here on planet earth is pretty small, but our God is very great.
What joy there is to be able to teach our children that as large as all this is, there is a creator who made it,
sustains it, and knows every miniscule detail of it. We get to teach students at LCES that that the same
creator who made Mars knows them by name as they rise each day and explore his world. What an
opportunity!
SJ
P.S. Check out Louie Giglio preaching about Stars and Whales Singing God’s praise here.
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