Wonder, Scale, and the Call Beyond Ourselves

We live in an unbelievable, incomprehensible world. We live on a small ball called Earth, revolving around a massive nuclear reaction that gives us light, heat, and energy. It sits at just the right distance so we do not burn up or freeze. We are traveling around the sun in a precise orbit at 64,000 miles per hour, covering one and a half million miles per day and 580 million miles per year. Our solar system exists within a galaxy that rotates around its center at roughly 100,000 miles per hour. The universe itself spans nearly 93 billion light years…

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