This is the title I chose for my personal blog, which is meant to give me an outlet for one of my favorite crafts – writing – plus to use an image from my favorite sport, golf.  Out of college, my first job was as a reporter for the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon, and I went on from there to practice writing in all my professional positions, including as press secretary in Washington, D.C. for a Democrat Congressman from Oregon (Les AuCoin), as an Oregon state government manager in Salem and Portland, as press secretary for Oregon’s last Republican governor (Vic Atiyeh), and as a private sector lobbyist.  This blog also allows me to link another favorite pastime – politics and the art of developing public policy – to what I write.  I could have called this blog “Middle Ground,” for that is what I long for in both politics and golf.  The middle ground is often where the best public policy decisions lie.  And it is where you want to be on a golf course.

It is almost too much to comprehend!

What?

Images produced by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope.

Just think about this fact as reported by the Wall Street Journal:

“The telescope appears to be even more powerful than the people who dreamed it up had hoped.  It is able to see further into the depths of space and time than the acclaimed Hubble, collecting the exquisitely faint infrared light emitted by the first stars and galaxies more than 13 billion years ago.

“’It sees things that I never dreamed were out there,’ said senior project scientist John Mather, a Nobel laureate who started working on the telescope in 1995.”

Light visible that started its route to us 13 billion years ago!

Earlier this week, the National Aviation and Space Administration released the first set of full-color images and data obtained by the revolutionary Webb telescope.  It was quite a cosmic show, according to the Journal: “Colliding galaxies, a dying star shedding itself layer by layer, a glorious stellar nursery, and the intriguing signs of water vapor and clouds on a giant planet whirling around a faraway star.”

With all this, my thoughts automatically go to a key question:  How was all this created?

No doubt eminent scientists could come up with various explanations.  But the explanation I CHOOSE – and let me add that I am not an eminent scientist — God created all this!

Plus, it is possible for us as human beings to have a relationship with Him if we choose to do so.

So, ponder infinity as we continue to see brilliant images from space billions of years ago – yes billions – and think of God’s handiwork.