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ask the astronauts
considering the number of all beautiful people that exist in the world (haven’t factored in all the ones gone and all the ones to come), sometimes it makes me sad that i won’t meet every one of them. and by beautiful i mean like on a soul-level, you know?
well, i have been looking and thinking a lot about the new pictures of the moon, and what one of those astronauts said. so it’s like a thousand miles away from earth, and all you can still feel is love?
yes.
from up there, the earth almost looks like a marble toy streaked with blues, whites, browns and greens. pretty weird how not a single face is seen when there are billions of us on it. suspended in the air like that, hanging on nothing, does it still surprise you we fall in love?
my sadness over not meeting each and every beautiful person there is on earth, subsides a little when i see us like that. seems like our eyes look at the same moon, and our skins get warmed by the same sun. our air gets filtered by the same thin blue line on the edge of this marble we live on. through all these things we share, haven’t we really met?
all the people that are gone (which is a very suspicious thing) are still felt in our hearts. if the astronauts can feel our love from the moon, imagine the ones just six feet deep or wherever they may be. this is not some feel-good imagery i am trying to paint, it is a truth i am learning to believe and live in. if it is possible for the earth to just be hanging, then we might as well believe in anything.
God is love, and i will rest on that. love does not die, it is eternal. so i will love the people in my life and all the ones i will meet. and all the ones i won’t get to meet, God’s love will find them.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God
1 John 4:7