Hitchhickers's guide to Thanksgiving
Yesterday, Nathanael stopped by the video store and picked up a movie that the kids have wanted me to see. “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” If you don't have ADHD already, this film will give it to you. Luckly I am already random. Just about the time you settle in to the story line, they hit the “Improbability Drive Button” on the spaceship and the craft and the storyline take a new turn. Lots of funny moments, some sacreligion, and a lot of wierdness. Underneath the surface of the randomness the plot leads to a search for the ultimate question (because you have to know what the question is before the ultimate answer does you any good).
Now for the Philisophizing...It give me a strange feeling to consider what it is like for people that are still searching for the meaning of life. Space probes are sent to find our origins. Palentologists and Anthropologists dig. Philosophers reason. Sociologists socialize... There is this kind of “lost in space” feeling I get when I think of how it must be not to have the ultimate question answered. It is a “Hal, open the pod bay doors!” (“2001 a Space Odessey”) moment where you end up floating forever in a vast universe or at least until your air runs out.
Their are a lot of reasons for being lost in space. Ignorance and blindness, not paying attention to the Lord, and sometimes outright rebellion. Thanksgiving is one of those times that takes me back to things I know for sure...the answer to the ultimate question. Not because I'm smart. But because He decided at the beginning to explain it all through the scriptures.
Last december they detected a “starquake” in a magnetic star that in 200 milliseconds released more energy than our Sun would expend in 250,000 years. That makes me feel small. But it doesn't make me feel lost. I just want to stand in awe of a Creator with that kind of “power to burn.” And I am comforted that He says He loves us, has a huge plan for us, and has the infinite ability to accomplish it. He tells us why we were made. You know, the ultimate answer! We are designed and destined to give Him the praise and glory He is worthy of. We are creatures created in His image with the capacity to search out His wonders, be moved by His heart, marvel at His intellect and creativity, and above all appreciate His mercy and grace...Then we get the honor of shouting it to all creation. Instead of floating in meaninglessness, we can be eternally thankful.
Have a wonderful, eternal Thanksgiving
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