Church & Faith at Pulpit Rock...: January 2012

Sunday, January 8, 2012

God's original plan

Everyone does the best they can. But it is murky what they are talking about when anyone constantly uses pronouns without any antecedent noun. Usually congregants confuse their church with God when they think and talk with more emotion about attendance and finances than the Holy Spirit. Since to be God means one needs nothing, as it was said eons ago that to need nothing is Divine, how is it we even think of giving anything like money and buildings to God, all for our own comfort and company? We got and get everything from God? We give him nothing but company. This was his original plan. And this too is spiritual.

Milky Way Explanation

Gazing out from within the Milky Way, our own galaxy's true structure is difficult to discern. But an ambitious survey effort with the Spitzer Space Telescope now offers convincing evidence that we live in a large galaxy distinguished by two main spiral arms (the Scutum-Centaurus and Perseus arms) emerging from the ends of a large central bar. In fact, from a vantage point that viewed our galaxy face-on, astronomers in distant galaxies would likely see the Milky Way as a two-armed barred spiral similar to this artist's illustration. Previous investigations have identified a smaller central barred structure and four spiral arms. Astronomers still place the Sun about a third of the way in from the Milky Way's outer edge, in a minor arm called the Orion Spur.