Quick Summary:

With everything else going on in our world, it was easy to miss a significant anniversary that came and went last month—the 35th ANNIVERSARY of a photograph from SPACE that, at first glance, seems to show nothing at all.

But if you look closely at the dark canvass, you can just make out a tiny speck of light.
That speck is the EARTH seen from nearly 4 billion miles away.

This was Earth—our Earth—as no human eye had ever seen it…
and what's more, an accidental reflection off of the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it took the photo made it look as though the PALE BLUE DOT was being lit up by a glowing beam of light.

Apollo astronauts had taken photos showing Earth as a big blue marble, swirling with clouds and continents. But this picture showed the smallness of Earth in the vastness of space.
It’s a perspective, one might think, that has the potential to change everything by revealing how infinitesimally small our planet truly is—against the backdrop of a DARK VOID that goes on forever.

But that potential has yet to be realized. And until it is, we will continue to divvy up the PALE BLUE DOT, to go to war over little fiefdoms, over what belongs to whom, and who should be in charge.

By so many measures, in so many ways, our world is out of balance.
? Foundations that once were solid are being shaken.
? Institutions that cultivated trust and hope here at home and around the world are being torn down, their leaders sacked, their life’s work thrown on the trash heap.
How do we respond? by doing justice, loving kindness, walking humbly with God.