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To see what no human eye had ever seen was the biggest wow factor of my first trip to University at the end of the sixties and early seventies. As part of my studies we were shown an early electron microscope. It had to be housed in a deep basement to keep it safe from vibration as much as possible. We were looking at a level that was unattainable with any ordinary microscope. I say it was a wow but really it was the thought rather than the reality that blew my mind. What I saw made no sense as we were looking at things that made no sense I certainly had no words to even describe the images we saw never mind understand them. I have always been amazed by our Universe. From the vastness I touched on in the last chapter to the unbelievably strange sub atomic world  where the rules of physics and motion that we think are set in concrete no longer apply.

These two extremes, the vast complexity of the Universe and our small planet and the small circle of our own lives lived out in just a small part of our world, hurt my brain if I try to dwell on them for very long.

Yet even in the strange sub atomic world we are looking at the handiwork of the Divine of the Creator. In the previous chapter I tried to give some understanding of the God who is beyond comprehension and knowability. A God who is not of time or of anything which is remotely within the possibility of our understanding.

But this great and awesome God knows everything. He knew me and you before we were born. He knows every thought we have ever had, every word we have uttered and wrap your mind around this, He knows every word every action we will ever take. He knows everything from the start of time to the end. He knows the very minute of our last breath. Nothing is unknown to Him. Every hair on our head is known in its completeness, every sparrow that has ever or will ever exist is known by God.

That's a bigger wow factor than the strange images seen on an early electron microscope.

God who does not live in time knows everything, the beginning and the end of all. There is no place to hide. We are known. All things are known. We cannot ask why of a being, if we can even use that word, so far beyond our understanding. Nor can we even glimpse the purpose of every intertwining thread of all lives, of all that we perceive to exist. There is far more unknown than known. We see a tiny part of a gigantic whole.

For reasons we cannot even begin to comprehend we are loved by the very creator of Love. Loved way beyond anything we can understand. How safe we should feel! We are safe, we may not be able to trust enough to believe it, but we are safe when we are bound to Him by our pathetically poor efforts to return that love.

We are of the highest value to Him. Imagine being able to write that last sentence and know it is true.

It takes a lot of very hard work by us to begin to Learn to See things as they really are. We move and live and breath within Him.

It takes a very small closed mind not to be able to accept this reality. Indeed pride and arrogance, both false, can make us blind to these great truths. How we are tempted to lift ourselves up to a delusional sense that we are in any sense equal to or able to question anything He chooses to do.

We have been given just enough knowledge to allow us to survive our individual circumstances. We have to Learn to See! There are none so blind as those who choose not to see.

My heart bursts with love as I contemplate the greatness of God.