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Let’s start with the small stuff first.

My body is an incredable work of art. It’s a fine organic machinery. That machinery makes it possible for me to use my hands to climb mountains. Legs to walk huge distances. Ears to listen to increadable music. Eyes to be awed by nature and art. Mouth to speak love and compassion.

The body organs are built up by small building blocks called cells. These cells are mind blowing work of art, just by themselves. They’re like mini bodies, that provide functions to obtain stuff they need and throw out stuff they don’t need.

A red blood cell are 0,008 mm big. That’s pretty small. Still it provide vital functions I can’t live without.

These cells are built up by molecules. These molecules consist of atoms. In atoms you have electrons. If you blow up the size of everything, so that an electron would be the size of an apple, you would become 3,5 times taller than the diameter of the solar system. It would take light one day to travel from your toes to your head.

Light travels at a speed of 299 792 km per second (186 282 miles/s).

Now for the big stuff

The distance between the earth and the sun is about 150 million kilometres (93 million miles). If I where to drive my car to the sun, at 100 km/h (62 miles/h) it would take me 1 500 000 hours, or 62 500 days (constant driving, no breaks) or 171 years or 5.7 generations. For light it takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds or 0,000053 generations.

Our sun is not alone in the universe. The closest star is 3,7 light years away. That’s about 34 980 689 894 400 kilometres (21 735 992 984 956 miles). It would take me 40 million years to finish that travel with my car.

We are located in a galaxy called the Milky way. It’s a well grown galaxy, not the smallest and not the biggest in the universe. In this galaxy there are 300 billion stars. How many of these are solar systems with planets, like our, is not know. However experts believe that planets are not rare. 300 billion stars! 300 000 000 000 suns. That’s just crazy.

It takes the light 100 000 years to travel across the Milky way. It would take about 1 trillion years in my car (Because of wear I would probably have to change car 72 billion times during that travel).

What is more crazy is that there are many more galaxies around us. Andromeda is not the closest, but the biggest galaxy in our local group of 30 galaxies. It is 2,5 million light years away. It contains about 1 trillion stars.

Let’s move on. 2,5 million light years are nothing. The observable universe is 45 billion light years in any direction. Within this sphere there is believed to be 80 billion galaxies containing a total of 30 000 000 000 000 billion stars.

To compare there are probably as many grains of sand on the earth as there are stars in the observable universe. So travel to every beach on the earth, and start counting, to understand how huge the universe is.

How big is really God?

The size of the whole universe, only God knows. What does all these stars hide? Are they there just to stimulate our imagination? I don’t know, but I do know that you don’t have 45 billion light years to find out. In this huge universe, between the small electrons and billions of light years, are you. God has created all this, from the huge universe and distant stars, to the electrons in your body.

Your life is not even a small blink in comparison to the universe.

But the really crazy part is that the God that is the creator of all this is madly in love with you. Despite all the mega zillions of stars, His focus is on you. He is so in love that this big creator let His only Son be killed for you.

He died, so you would go from your fragile state, to an eternal life of light and love. I don’t know everything that will happen in that eternal life. But I bet by looking at the size of the universe, it probably will not be boring. I bet the possibilities are pretty huge.

My conclusion? I bet my “big” problems are pretty small in the hands of God, the creator of all. Loving hands.

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