Recently I found myself watching a bit of late-night television. The show did not star Johnny or Dave, but the stars themselves. A layman's understanding of things celestial is all I possess, but it's enough to fill me with wonder when I look skyward at night. Events and distances unimaginable are ordinary out in space.

According to scientists, the solar system that contains our very own Earth exists somewhere in the outer one-third of the galaxy we call the Milky Way. The Milky Way is nearly six trillion miles in diameter, and is only one of billions of solar systems that make up the Milky Way.

Scientists believe that somewhere in the center of the Milky Way there exists a phenomenon called a super massive black hole. The gravity from the black hole reaches out across our galaxy and holds it together. Scientists have observed entire stars moving at more than 30 millions miles per hour, racing toward their destruction onto the center of this black hole. The gravity found there is so powerful that if you would eventually be reduced to a single stream of atoms on your way to its center.

Then one must consider that our Milky Way is only one of billions of other galaxies, with the distances between them filled with nothing but the absolute void of space itself. Amazingly even these galaxies are being pulled together by the force of gravity.

Naturally, after considering all of this information the question arose between my wife and myself as to whether we were alone in all of this. Did God perhaps give us another try on one of the other billions of galaxies and solar systems they contain or are we absolutely alone? This gave rise to all sorts of related and equally unanswerable questions.

Some people find it more comforting to believe there are other beings on other worlds. Believing in Evolution, they find it impossible to conceive there is no life elsewhere in the cosmos. However, if we are created on purpose, as the Bible says, then were other world created also? Some people cannot believe we are so special that God would create only one Earth on which men were placed for better or worse. Why would God do something like that? When judgment day comes, will all of the other worlds be judged also? Are we the only screw-ups in the cosmos?

Obviously, I don't have any definitive answers, but I do lean toward the belief that God created men on purpose and in His image. I have no problem assuming the burdon of being special, even God-like. It's a task that I will never accomplish in this lifetime, without His help. None of us will, but it is sad to me that so many of us resist our true calling.

However, considering the cosmos does give me hope. If there is a God that created all of that and still remembered to create a spec like me - well that's a lot of love. We all owe Him our best shot with the time we have here on Earth. Who knows - maybe we will be creating stars and galaxies ourselves one day. That is definitely Good News.