Day 46 - February 25

My house has been wonderfully peaceful today. I think I'm addicted to noise. I normally have the TV on or my IPOD blaring but today for the most part the house has been quiet. With this quietness has come peace. I've just felt a sweet calmness that I haven't really had this winter.

Anyways, the noise that was in the house today came from Francis Chan. I was listening to a podcast of his called Intimacy With God. In one section he was talking about how BIG our universe is. Francis listed and explained different facts about vastness of our galaxy and the universe.

So, Did you know that it would take you 100 thousand light years to travel across our galaxy. Wow huh? That's big and that's just our galaxy. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies that we can see the Hubble Space Telescope. Just trying to wrap my mind around how big that is and how small I am almost leaves me speechless... but that would make for a boring blog. So I'm sitting here contemplating this and then looking at my daughter who is banging a block on the tray of her highchair. God created hundreds of billions of galaxies and he then created my daughter, He created me. God CREATOR. WOW. That is pretty humbling to me. God creates me and then chooses to allow me to have a relationship with Him and calls me His daughter. WOW.

Psalm 139:13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb

Layla at 26 weeks in my womb

Layla at about 2 minutes old

Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Images from the Hubble Space Telescope