Your Life Is A Miracle

“Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens,” the Jewish prophet instructed. Whenever I do that, it makes me feel small. I think that was the prophet’s purpose. While we might be the dominant species on this third rock from the sun, we are overshadowed by our surroundings.

More than a thousand earth-sized planets would fit inside our largest neighbor, Jupiter, and more than a million of the same would fit inside the sun. That sun, giant as it may appear, is aptly classified as a yellow “dwarf,” for it is pint-sized compared to other celestial brothers and sisters. The largest star in the Milky Way galaxy is 2,000 times larger than the sun, so massive it is beyond our minds to imagine, and yet so far away, we cannot even see it with the naked eye. And this little galaxy we call home, populated with billions of stars…