STARGAZING

Abraham looks to the stars as all human beings do and there he discovers the light that comes from a divine mind and revealing the generations to come after him..  Abraham is considered "the father of our faith" for the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians.

 

Old people shouldn't eat health foods.  They need all the preservatives they can get.

Robert Orbit.

 

Something to think of when dad and I get old.  Old is when you lose the twinkle in your eye and the love in your heart and the delight of a new day.  Sarah gave birth at a very old age and this reminds us  that even as we age we can birth new ideas and new life.

 

 

Dad bought a fairly good telescope so all the children could look at the stars. It was fascinating to pick out the different constellations. like the big dipper, but not always easy to see.

Abraham, father of three faiths, was a star gazer. He believed that God;   the one God, who he had come to believe in a was the only One who possess all space and all  time.  If Abram would look to the stars the promise was written in the heavens  promising many descendants, a hopeful future. This was a big concern in that culture to have descendants and who would carry on their traditions.

In the Hebrew the stars were a vision of what will be; but in the Quranic story the stars our a symbol of all that passes away. Cultural differences? Or is the One Being simply inconsistent in the way He-She sends messages to prophets?

Today we can look at the stars unveiled by the Hubble telescope, we can see light that has left its source and has taken eons to reach us. I like "the combination of ideas that both faiths see in the stars. They represent a creative past that is still moving ahead of us, reminding us of those who have gone before and by implication, of our responsibility for those who come after- our children and the land that is home.

Friday there is a funeral at the church and then Tavia is visiting after her work.