I love to get out in the country, away from the city lights, to take in the majesty of the Milky Way. Here it is in a wonderful picture taken over the Black Sea by Bulgarian photographer Jasmine K. You can see the spiral arm the Earth sits inside, spinning itself into an ineffable universe.
When I have the opportunity to apprehend such a sight, I literally feel how minuscule our little planet is. When I think about my place within the thin skin of our Earth’s atmosphere, it can be easy to slip into feeling insignificant and meaningless. Yet, meaning is ambient. We are meaning-making creatures, telling stories, writing poetry, and conducting scientific experiments – all to explore the many dimensions of our worlds, inner and outer.
Perhaps like yin and yang, the majestic lives in the very essence of the minuscule, making it possible. And the corollary is the minuscule at the center of the majestic, bringing its magnitude into being.
Wow! What a way to start the week! Where will you delight in the mundane that is sacred this week? And where will the divine find its place in your day-to-day activities?
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.”
– Salvador Dali
