Jesus and his contemporaries lived in what can be called a "three-tier universe": the sky or heaven above, the earth in the middle, and Hades or Gehenna, the place of the dead, below. It was easy to think of God as being in the highest heaven, far beyond the reach of human beings. This is a little harder to imagine with our knowledge that the earth is round and orbits the sun, that the sun is only one of a myriad of stars in our galaxy, and that there are countless galaxies in the universe. As our understanding of space has expanded, so, too, should our vision of God be expanded, both inward and outward, beyond the picture of the old man in the sky, to the mystery of the logic and balance of physical forces, our fragile ecosystem, and of life itself.

May our presence add to the goodness of God's creation.

Thoughts from Lyn Pickhover

Lenten Devotions
February 26, 2021