Si in Space (22 page)

I LOVE LISTENING TO MY FATHER TELL STORIES.
He’s always had an incredible gift to draw people in and make them laugh or surprise them. Obviously Dad got this gift from my papaw, Phil Robertson. Sitting in a duck blind between the two of them while they tell (or make up) stories has been a blessing growing up.

I’ve thought about this while working on these books. It’s been both fun and challenging creating crazy story lines like the ones you just read. Anytime you start to fill a blank screen with words, there are many places where you can get it wrong.

But all I have to do is look up at the stars to realize that the very first Creator
 
—
our
Creator
 
—never gets it wrong. From the very beginning, when he created the sun and the moon and the stars, God got it right. And we see his endless creativity every morning at dawn and every evening at sunset.

The infinite reaches of the solar system show the awesome glory of our God. The fact that God could make something so endless and so truly out of this world boggles my mind. But it also gives me hope late at night when the darkness surrounds me. I just have to look up to see an ocean of stars and know God is in control.

I love Job 38:31-33, where God responds to Job’s questions and doubts:

“Can you direct the movement of the stars
 
—

binding the cluster of the Pleiades

or loosening the cords of Orion?

Can you direct the sequence of the seasons

or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens?

Do you know the laws of the universe?

Can you use them to regulate the earth?”

Job’s answer is the same as mine or anybody else’s: no. Absolutely no way.

Yet God can and does. He doesn’t need to ponder which choice to make like we do. His actions are always correct
 
—even when we don’t understand them.

Next time you look into space, think about Uncle Si being out there. No, just kidding. Really think about God’s infinite creativity, as wide and deep as his infinite love for you and me.