It's all about perspective

These emailed photos arrived with the sage advice, "It's a big universe! Keep life in perspective, and don't sweat the small stuff."

While considering our minuteness might help put our problems into perspective, it's also good to realize that however tiny we might be on a universal scale of matter, each of us is important in God's eyes because identity is essentially spiritual, and we are vital to the completeness of His spiritual universe.

Everytime we say something kind to someone, we make a difference to that person. Every time we do something generous, we make a difference in that setting. Every time caring trumps selfishness, we make a difference in this world.


Earth is the big planet on the left, followed in size by Venus, Mars, Mercury, and recently disowned Pluto.




Jupiter is big planet on the left, followed in size by Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Earth is the pea-sized dot under turquoise Uranus

Here the big orange star in the center is our Sun.
Jupiter is small planet below it on left, and our Earth is the spec over towards the right.

You and I are just as important as every drop of rain that helps fill a lake or a river, or an ocean. What we have to give counts in the grand scheme.

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"What if the little rain should say,

So small a drop as I
Can ne'er refresh the drooping earth,
I'll tarry in the sky."

Mary Baker Eddy

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