The Celebration service at SJD is about to end. I will miss it. Yet I suspect it has run its course. It is a failed and failing service if you look at the numbers. And yet there are a few mature wonderful people who consider it their regular service and love it very much. But with less that 25 regular attendees we, the choir and musicians sometimes out number the congregation. I will miss my fellow worship leaders. But I suspect my relationship to SJD, as little as it has become, will dwindle to nothing now. Life moves on.
I bring that up because one of Celebration's favorite anthems based on Psalm 8. I did not realize how close it is:
"When I gaze into the night sky and see the work of your fingers.
The moon and stars suspended in space.
Oh what is man that you should be mindful of him.
You have made man in glory and honor and have made him a little lower than the angel.
You have put him in charge of all creation.
The beasts of the field.
The birds of the air.
The fish of the sea.
Yet what is man that you should be mindful of him.
Oh Lord our God, little children praise you perfectly.
And so should we."
Well pretty close to that.
God made an amazing big universe. We are such a little part of it. So little. Sometimes we marvel at it. Man knows more about it now than David did so long ago. Yet the more we know the more mind boggling it all is. Why did God do it? If we do not believe that God created it where does that leave us? It just is? It just happened? Big Bang Theory tells us there was a time when it was not. How did it all happen? Surely there has to be some kind of divine mover? Like I said it is all mind boggling.
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