It might seem that, during a time of feeling particularly at sea and powerless, the contemplation of the vastness of the universe would not be a calming exercise -- circumstances can't be altered on even our tiny scale, so why would we look at a picture in which we realize that each shining pinpoint is a sun the size of our own?
But once one adds in the fudge factor of belief in a Creator, one who personally relates to creation and cares for it? Then the mind may turn to a realization that the power which made a universe so large and vast is the same one that tends even the tiny bits of protoplasm that walk around on the surface of a small planet in an unremarkable solar system in an rural stretches of an unremarkable galaxy.
Mindful of us, indeed.
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