Did you ever look up into the night sky on a really dark night and just marvel at the vastness of space?
Did you ever find a place, like Monument Valley with little or no light pollution and study the stars on a moonless night and decide that we are just insignificant beings on this small blue planet?
Did you ever visit a planetarium and listen as they described the sheer staggering numbers of stars in the sky?
Many people feel that we are each pretty insignificant in the face of such a huge dynamic as the tiny fraction of space that we can actually see. How can one person matter when you consider the size of stars, the fact that there are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on all the beaches, and in all the deserts of the whole world? It is mind boggling to consider that with each of those stars there are planets, asteroids, nebulae and potentially other beings who live there.
It just makes you wonder if God thinks of us as insignificant in the face of such vastness and complexity. Do we matter to God? Are we important to such a Supreme Being? Many people feel that sense of insignificance. Many wonder about the struggle each day to live, to be a good person, spouse, sibling, child, employee, co-worker and just citizen of this small blue planet.
Do we matter to God? Are we really insignificant?
God would never consider any of us insignificant. We are each profoundly precious in the sight of God.
Consider a blade of grass, how significant is that tiny bit of matter to God? That blade of grass is as equally significant as the greatest sun, the most astounding universe and the tiniest cell on this or any world. Every single atom in this creational universe, and all of the seven ever-expanding, super universes, is precious in the site of God.
Whether or not we feel insignificant is irrelevant. We are ‘significant’ to God. We are loved and adored by the Father in each and every moment of our eternal, immortal existence. When this knowledge lives within each and every one of us, we come that much closer to the Divine, to touching the face of God in all of its iterations.
How could it be otherwise? If we were not significant we would not be here, would not have the profound gift of mortal existence and could not have the knowledge of God at all.
We are God’s ‘creation’ in the physical sense just as that blade of grass is also a creation. God provides all the necessary elements of mortal interaction from that essential blade of grass to that firefly. Every single carbon based item on this planet is placed here for a reason. Part of that reason is so that we can have a ‘significant’ experience in mortal life.
Some of the experiences we require for mortal life are challenging, from climbing that mountain, to healing that mosquito bite. Some experiences are so significant that we will remember them life after life and some are so fleeting that we have already forgotten them. Yet all of them were essential to helping us become who we are at this moment. No energy of creational experience is ever wasted. Every moment is a karmic moment and every karmic moment is connected and balanced by the next karmic moment. It is the essence of the karmic savings and loan. Universal balance at the atomic level is life itself whether we think of it as ‘life’ in the parochial sense or not.
We, and that blade of grass are equally significant and equally loved. We will both always matter to God now and forever. Nothing and no one is ever insignificant!
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