When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is humankind that you are mindful of them,   
human beings that you care for them?”

Psalm 8:3–4 (NIV)

I wonder when you last had opportunity to look up at our Southern sky? 

For some of you it may have been out on a bush property, or by the coast, or somewhere quiet in the outback. There’s a stillness in those moments that makes you feel incredibly small and somehow, more deeply connected to God.

Psalm 8 captures that wonder and sense of God’s majesty perfectly.

King David looked at the night sky and was overwhelmed. Not by fear, but by awe, that the God who shaped the stars would care about us.

You. Me. All people, every day.

This ancient text meets us in our modern Australian landscape, where we still see God’s fingerprints in creation. From the star-filled desert skies of the Red Centre to the beauty of the ocean colours.  Our land speaks of God’s glory.

Even in a world that feels fragile, with war in Eastern Europe to economic instability we are reminded that God has crowned humanity “with glory and honour.” Psalm 8 centres us: the God who shaped the galaxies has not abandoned us.

 We are entrusted to care for all of creation, including one another.  God is greater than all that is seen or unseen; and You and I are part of God’s unfolding story, right here, right now where God has placed us.  We are not forgotten.

As you go about your week remember that you carry the image of the Creator. Your life reflects God’s purpose.

Blessings. - Rev Carmel