Bea (usually The House of Three Milks, but not this time)

Bea and Simon visited us on Saturday.  They were on a tour of family and friends in the South and were heading back home Northwards.  We didn't have long together - not long enough to get in some soy milk and become The House of Three Milks - but it was so lovely to see them, albeit briefly.  We got a takeaway from a local Italian restaurant we had never tried before, and it was excellent.  I ordered a pizza - margarita, my favourite - so it provided my supper for two days.

Simon is very into Astronomy and bought some wonderful photos he has taken of the planets, stars and galaxies.  When we see the wonder that is the Universe we float in - and we only get glimpses of it - I hope it can make us all wonder where it came from, who created it...

Because the answer is there, in the Inspired Scriptures, which say of our Creator, Jehovah:

“Lift up your eyes to heaven and see.
Who has created these things?
It is the One who brings out their army by number;
He calls them all by name.
Because of his vast dynamic energy and his awe-inspiring power,
Not one of them is missing." - Isaiah 40:26

I think Science has now caught up with that, and agrees that matter does come from energy.  And that is expressed clearly and simply in Isaiah.

Jehovah knows every one of us, just as he knows every star, just as not a sparrow falls without his knowing about it.  And he assures us, in his inspired word, that if we search for him we will find him.

I know that to be true.  

Col has not, yet, got into astronomical photography, but I put "star" into his Photo Gallery and got this splendid starfish, taken in The Gulf.  It did appear on the cover of one of the Oil Company's brochures many years ago. And may still do so, for all I know.

It is, apparently, a Common Knobbed Star (though to me it seems very uncommon).