January 15... that’s when a failed 14.5 ton, 165 million dollar Russian Mars probe is expected to come crashing back to earth. The good news is, most of the probe is expected to burn up in the atmosphere. Russians scientists predict that just 20 to 30 pieces, weighing a maximum of 440 pounds will actually hit the ground (or water). The bad news is Russian scientists say it's impossible to know when and where the probe will hit. Should we worry? According to the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies, the odds of getting hit by space debris are at the most 10,000 to one. In fact there’s only one known case of that happening, in Tulsa and she survived. Still, the thought that large pieces of a space probe will be falling from the skies is somewhat disconcerting.
I wonder if God is intrigued and even amused by our longing to explore the mystery of the universe when perhaps the greatest unexplored frontier is the human soul. For it is here within the deepest part of our being that God waits to meet us. It is here we'll discover that extraterrestrial life that has already come crashing down into our reality not as some errant piece of space debris, but as the embodiment of love. In my book that's something worth getting clobbered by!
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