We are stardust.
This may sound like a romantic expression of who and what we are.
But it is a scientific fact.
Amazing how we have emerged from that primeval explosion of a single particle.
In that primal moment were embedded the seeds of who we are.
We are meant to live forever.
When I am asleep I am dead to the world.
With my senses all shut down, the outside world is shut off.
And yet, I am not dead.
My body is busy cleaning itself up of the toxins I have accumulated during the day.
Damaged tissues are repaired and sick cells are made whole again.
My mind is clearing my psyche of all the anxieties and pains of the day.
My memory is re-ordered and the chaos of the day that was, processed.
I may be dead to the world.
But it is also probably the time I am most truly alive.
Jane gave us a command performance of songs and dances yesterday afternoon.
She topped her show with a quiz portion giving away gifts galore.
The show is over now but it is still playing in my mind.
And whenever I hear the songs she performed for us,
I can conjure up that afternoon all over again.
It is alive in my memory and in my being.
It was but a moment but it did change me – forever.
It will always be a part of me now.
It will also be part of Jane now – for always.
In those moments she was performing for us,
She was defining herself, discovering her talents and describing in actions
what she wants to be and will be in the future.
That Saturday afternoon is now part of eternity
Nowadays, I learn new songs mainly through Jane’s singing.
The songs of my youth rarely play on the radio nowadays.
But whenever they do, they bring back my past
And remind me how I got here.
I realize the songs have not gone.
They now form part of the soundtrack of my life
That will forever be playing in the background for as long as I am alive.
It took billions of years for the stardust to become me.
And now that I am here, I know I will outlast the stars.
I see so much of Tatang and Ima in me.
And I will also live forever in Jane and the next generations.
My life has been lived out with a beautiful melody in the background.
That is just a drift in the hymn that the universe in singing to its Creator.
I see dimly now.
But even in the shadows, I see the beauty that is in store for me.
Yes, on a clear day I can see forever.
Through the window, in the distance,
I can see the eternity that God has made for me.
The one God who is above all things and through all things and in all things.
God is above all things as Father, for He is principle and source;
He is through all things through the Word;
And He is in all things in the Holy Spirit.
Glory and praise for ever!
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him might not perish
but might have eternal life.
John 3:16
“We are stardust.” In the popular song, “STARDUST” was referred to as “the memory of love’s refrain.” Love, as I understand Teilhard de Chardin, incessantly works with science to produce the universe as it is now. And yet in the end, as you said, the evolved products of stardust will outlast even the universe, as we are meant to live forever in joyful union with God. On our way to that union, we enjoy glimpses of it already, as when you see God’s goodness in what those around you, such as Jane, are marvellously doing. I am happy for you Verne, and thank you for nudging our thoughts, even if perhaps unintended, around the complex subject of science and religion, and the final convergence of all that is created and evolved, at the Omega Point which is Christ “who draws all things to himself.”
Indeed, Raoul. All creation is inexorably moving forward towards Christogenesis. Science has a term to describe this movement – Singularity. We can Christianize that term and define the Omega Point as the real Singularity. We should look out for the evil one though as he tries to nudge creation towards sofalarity.