A couple of weeks ago, Abby and I were driving home from school and she asked when we were going to join the local astronomy club. She said she wanted to join quick so she could tell the people there that the Bible proves that “the Bang” is fake.
I smiled and said, “What verses are you going to show them to prove it?” She then pointed to a little gray NIV Bible we keep in the car and opened it up to Job 9:9:
He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
She has of course seen all these three of these constellations in the night sky and made the connection that so many of us have trouble making — that God actually made the stuff, not some random Bang 15 billion years ago. We may say that we believe God created all this, but to approach it with child-like faith — that is something most of us “grown-ups” have trouble with.
For a brief moment in the car that day, I was humbled by an 8 year old little girl and realized that what her parents are preaching to her is getting through and slowly but surely molding her heart for Christ. Definitely a proud day moment.