Creation

Yesterday I got lots of things done.  I'm finding that with being able to stay home more, I'm getting much more done around the house.  It feels good.  By the afternoon I was tired enough that I thought I'd watch, what I thought might be this show about a bunch of folks singing to raise funds for COVID.  It wasn't on.  So I ended up watching a PBS show about the Genome Project.  It was so fascinating, to the point where it sat with me for quite a few hours.

Pascal in his Pensees writes about God placing people in the "center" of nature.

"For in fact, what is man in nature?

 A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, 

an All in comparison with the Nothing,  

a mean between nothing and everything". 

I thought of that when watching how man dug into the so-very-small stuff.  Into DNA, RNA, genetic splitting, and finding ways to replace pieces of DNA that determine who people are.

I don't pretend to understand how that sits with me.  God gives us this ability, a gift really, to dive so deep into so many parts of his creation.  And the more we dig, the more we are given the opportunity to understand what God created and still creates.

Something to chew on some more...