By: Richard Hammar

Richard Hammar — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:38:06 +0000

As usual, your poignant commentary is a perfect complement to the images I take. Thanks for sharing! By the way, while I took this image from a telescope located in Australia, I was operating it remotely from my office in Missouri!

By: Dan Holloway

Dan Holloway — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:36:30 +0000

Richard – As always, thank you for including me on your list for giddy recipients of your God-breathed glimpses of humbling, clarifying, reality beyond our control. In light of your ever hearty appetite for apprehending truth, it makes perfect sense that you traveled to Australia to take this shot. Most of us plain folk appear satisfied to have cellphone pics of smiling grandchildren taken in our living rooms. You opt for journeying to the other side of the earth to capture a view of a silent, seemingly inactive, more than mammoth, shimmering citizen of space which we will never physically visit and touch and smell; and which may represent a perspective that is quite outside of – or intimate with – humanity’s life and death. Are we like children searching for the fullness of the Trinity while drifting in dinghies on the surface of an unlimited sea .. which our Father made? I accept we may behold Him in His Creation; but I typically tend to choose selecting and inspecting ideas which fit in my mind and heart. Last night I took a former inmate to prison to tell his former fellow inmates what it means to be at peace in Jesus; and the congregation ( we ) hungrily embraced each word. The Orion Nebula and its shining confederates are dazzlingly beautiful and intoxicating; and as we drove home last night I was grateful that I belong in a universe of such promise and communion.

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By: Richard Hammar

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