I really enjoyed the NASA space feed yesterday on YouTube, approaching the moon, flyby observations and then they went behind the moon, communication blackout, with reconnecting after 40 minutes. It was a listening experience, because the fine detailed images won’t be released to us for a while. I listened and was able to pause the feed to screenshot the astronaut showing us the quick photo on his phone.  Wow, I can’t even imagine how glorious it must have been to look out the window. 

“God Speed” the command center woman spoke as they were about to go behind the moon. And the astronaut quoted Christ as teaching the greatest important commandment is to LOVE GOD, and second is also great: LOVE EACH OTHER. 

GODSPEED TO THAT MESSAGE GETTING THROUGH. 

Then, they each said, “See you on the other side.”

The conversational encouragement, which the astronaut and ground folks shared, and engaged my ear, spoke that essentially as AMAZING as the moon is, the heavens, the travel etc, it’s the LOVE in existence and the people of earth’s shared LOVE which is felt and acknowledged as MORE – and transversing the distance. That they sensed LOVE as BIGGER. BIGGEST. No thing or activity replaces LOVE.

Love gives opportunities too. And one of the opportunities is to trust! Love gives us the opportunity to be okay when we say: “See you on the other side”, whether that is a short stretch of time, like forty minutes to the space mission behind the moon, or a long unknown time. I think when we kiss our loved ones goodbye, even in death, we must trust and know that we will see them on the other side, and we want them comforted to see us. 

And since the other side is where God ALSO is, as He is here, we must TRUST that we have LOVE and will LOVE on the other side. 

“LOVE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE!!!” should be our new catchphrase. 

Let us all believe that no matter where we go, the LOVE of God is bigger, greater, more fulfilling than anything or from anyone.  Love is shareable and non-destructable even through death.

Let us trust God always and keep moving. Let us rest in the Lord and watch Him move. God moves more than the heavens, He moves us to love. 

Amen 

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Matthew 22:36-40 NKJV 

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

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To quote a musical spaceman planted on earth: “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” David Bowie