Most Christians at some point will have seen or at least heard of Louis Giglio, and his amazing way of showing God's glory through images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
However I just saw this and it blew me away:
Please ignore the crap music. The crew was made up of 3 men; Frank F. Borman, James A. Lovell and William A. Anders. Now, back in 1968, it was commonplace for Americans to be in regular attendance to a church, indeed it was almost socially unacceptable to be successful and not be in church on a Sunday.
However, I like to think that on that Christmas eve, they were so blown away by it, that the only words they could use were those words of God's creation. NASA gave the crew just one instruction for their Christmas Eve broadcast that they knew would be broadcast across the world: "Say something appropriate".
In his autobiography, Countdown, Frank Borman later wrote, "There was one more impression we wanted to transmit: our feeling of closeness to the Creator of all things. This was Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, and I handed Jim and Bill their lines from the Holy Scriptures."
I can't find much about the other 2 guys, other than William (Bill) gave up organised religion after his missions, but as I understand it, his perspective was changed so vastly that he felt organised religion was wrong and maintained a faith with God.
Atheists mounted a legal battle about the Apollo 8 reading, and as such, Buzz Aldrin was banned from reading from the bible on the Apollo 11 mission. Madalyn Murray-O'Hair was the person behind the lawsuit and a self-proclaimed atheist leader. Although she had much Christian hate-mail, it was ironically an Atheist follower who chopped her up and spread her body parts over a Texan Ranch.
So anyway, if you can't find the words to worship, get lost in the wonder of the world. If you can't, then jump on a space shuttle and see the glory in orbit.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
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