I Immerse Myself In You

       In the past few years I have really grown a liking to star gazing/watching sun sets. If you have never done this I highly recommend it. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to do some star gazing up on Garvin Heights (if you haven't done that, it is AMAZING), and also with a friend from back home at her house (our star gazing place (: ). With school, and just the busyness of life in general, it's hard for me to take time to relax, and give myself a break to breathe. But when I actually do take the time to do the simple act of just laying down and staring at the sky with all the wonder it holds, it allows me to take a huge step back from life, and just be, and think.
      The overwhelming sense of peace I get from star gazing is unbelievable. It's the best stress reliever, and really puts things into a whole new perspective. I've always been kind of a nerd when it comes to astronomy. I find it all super interesting, and when I was younger, my dad purchased me a little telescope. Just laying there and thinking about how many stars are in the sky, how far away they are from earth, but how bright they still are to the naked eye is unfathomable. They are tiny balls fire millions of light years away, but yet we can still see them. When I think about all of this, I just become consumed when the question, "How can people not believe in a God with a world like this?" The universe is sooooo huge, and sooo unending. There are millions of galaxies. We have no idea what is out there, and scientists have problem only made a dent in what we can find out about the stars, planets, and just the universe as a whole.
     When I sit there, and think about how huge the universe is, and all the amazing sights it holds, it makes all my worries, and problems here on earth seem so minuscule, and pointless. I mean, look what God made for us. There is so much evidence of God in nature. Nature is the single most beautiful God created in my opinion. When I'm looking up at the sky at those stars it just makes me feel like the possibilities are endless, and that there is so much more to life than all the little things we make to seem so important. All of the things that make me cry, hurt me, or even bring me joy won't matter years from now. If my God can create something as wondrous as a ball of fire that lights up the sky, he can definitely take care of me, and all my little "problems". Looking at the stars just makes me feel like there's so much more out there then a 9-5 job. It makes me feel like God truly has a purpose to my life, but that this life is only the tiniest portion of forever with Him. It's really hard for me to explain all of this, but just the peace I feel from it makes each day a little easier to bear when I know something much bigger is really at the end of this journey called life, which will make everything I go through and do worth it.