Quick Summary:

The dimensions of our galaxy are mind-boggling: As many as 400,000 billion stars—and perhaps at least as many planets—arranged in a giant spiral disk of stars, dust, and gas measuring 100,000 light-years in diameter. Here we are this Sunday morning, sitting on what Carl Sagan called “this pale blue dot,” located in the “outer suburbs” of our home galaxy, and situated within the habitable zone in our planet’s orbit around the Sun…

Here we are…and we had nothing to do with getting here!
- Had nothing to do with the cosmic forces that made the emergence of life in the universe a possibility.
- Had nothing to do with the circumstances, infinitesimal by every measure, which led to Earth’s formation within the crucial habitable zone around our parent Star—the Sun.

We had nothing to do with the fact that we are…and yet, here we are!

So, my friends, my fellow and sister Earthlings, the question is:
WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR?