April 7, 2026
Above Our Divisions
by Randy Mynard, Sr. Warden
This photo from 8 miles up over New Mexico is the highest I have been. It looks down on a landscape where personal lives, controversies, dreams, plans, and prayers seem distant, seemingly less consequential in a wider world. Four astronauts, who are on the way to the Moon today, can see our planet from a much greater distance. Their only links to our earthbound divisions and hopes are via personal thoughts and radio. It must give them a different sense of today’s issues that consume us.
How about God’s view of our little world, a blue speck in a big solar system, lost in the vastness of one huge galaxy of billions in the cosmos? Such concepts are staggering. How is it that He knows of humans and is mindful of our individual needs and of our appeals? Somehow He does and even answers our individual prayers. He not only created us but obviously loves us enough to send his only son to bring us closer to him. Such questions are simply too big for me. I only know that He is there for me and for the rest of us. Why He does so doesn’t really matter.
Down there somewhere in the photo were neighbors, friends, and kinfolk. All of them relied on God and his mercy, his guidance, comfort, and protection. Sitting in the airplane with me were fellow passengers. We still rely on God to keep us safe. And so, too, the astronauts on their way to the Moon today. Easter, the celebration of Christ’s resurrection and Jesus’ promise of such for us, too, is the greatest gesture of God’s love of us. I don’t really need to know why that is the case, only to rejoice that it is so. I therefore must boldly offer my gratitude from our tiny blue speck, humanity’s home, to the God of the universe. Thank you.
