You Are A Miracle

More than seven billion people live on this planet. Yet, this represents less than 10% of the total human population that has ever lived. This begs the question: Given this extraordinary number, how can my life – any individual life for that matter – be all that significant? Aren’t we all just individual specks on the universe’s windshield as it speeds through time and space?

Maybe not, as our planet is only one of many heavenly bodies that circulate through our solar system. And our solar system is only one of the 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is only one among 10 billion galaxies in the observable universe. And within those 10 billion galaxies, all have some 100 billion stars.

This results in a truly astronomical number (no pun intended) of suns, solar systems, and planets; but still, at least at the time of…