FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT
The Joyous Psychology Of Meaning And Belonging
“For ten thousand years suffering humanity has been laboriously climbing
a vast black tower of ignorance, superstition and narcissism. And when some of our
scientists finally reached the top, they found a colony of philosophers and
theologians awaiting them in God’s sunlight.”
Viktor Frankl, Logotherapy Founder (In a private conversation.)
We, Roberta and Jard DeVille want to discuss with you what event is obviously
the greatest natural event of all time and eternity. It is nothing less than awe-inspiring,
mind boggling and humbling to realize that in the beginning there was only -- hydrogen!
Nothing else existed within the Cosmos for countless eons after everything exploded into
reality during the first nanosecond of the Big Bang. In fact -- there was no Cosmos as we
know it today. The universe was absolute chaos for an eternity and then, slowly but with
irresistible force, gravity sucked the swirling hydrogen clouds together into gigantic
glowing globes that grew so dense and so violent that they cooked off as incredibly vast
and powerful nuclear furnaces. Stars were born, lived, died and were then reborn in
incalculable numbers. We have trouble wrapping our minds around that initial concept
alone, for there are more stars in our Milky Way galaxy alone than grains of sand on all
the beaches of Earth. And incredibly, there are up to three or four hundred million
galaxies across the cosmic void. Perhaps you are beginning to understand what we feel
when we use the term mind-boggling, with our statement that this is the greatest story
ever told, that God the Cosmic Creator, the Seminal Spirit, the very Author of Existence,
can be welcomed as a loving companion in our lives.
The primitive stars in each island universe, such as Andromeda or the Milky Way,
spewed off immense clouds of radioactive stardust that is still being transmuted through
cosmic alchemy into the hundred or so elements needed to form more sophisticated stars
and their planets. Much as uranium is changed into plutonium within a nuclear reactor,
simple hydrogen is transmuted into new elements within the blazing nuclear globes.
Then, as radioactive stardust spewing away from each star is compressed through gravity
into even more generations of stars, this star stuff is transformed still more into all the
matter needed create and sustain life. God's incredible process of continuous creation of
the Cosmos and its contents including ourselves, continues forever on this divine scale,
for astronomers now have incredible photographs of developing stars popping off like
strings of firecrackers along unimaginably long columns of hydrogen that has evolved
into stardust. Every day -- yesterday and today and tomorrow, hundreds of millions of
tons of this star stuff drift down to earth, growing our planet about an inch in diameter
every million years. And if that seems slow, it is only because you haven’t yet caught
sight of God’s schedule!
