The pale blue dot

Wikipedia “Pale Blue Dot”: Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot within deep space: the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the brown band on the right.

Psalm 8

For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David.

Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
    in the heavens.
Through the praise of children and infants
    you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
    to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens,
    the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than the angels
    and crowned them with glory and honor.
You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
    you put everything under their feet:
all flocks and herds,
    and the animals of the wild,
the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

I heard this story on the podcast “Radiolab.” It’s mind-blowing. The Voyager space probes are now outside our solar system! We are still receiving data from them. The photo above is the last picture one of the Voyagers took of Earth before turning off the cameras. There’s teeny tiny pale dot on the brown-orange-ish sunbeam. It looks like a little blemish on the photo or something. And that’s us. Earth. Thinking of the immensity of God looking at us, it made me think of Psalm 8.

When I consider your heavens,
    the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?