"Black Holes and Checking Accounts"
Copyright 2001 by Sharon West

Perhaps I am starting to think like a rocket scientist, for I can understand the secrets of black holes. A black hole is an area of nothingness in space where the gravitational pull is so strong that it sucks everything nearby into it. Scientists suspect that the hole, also called a "wormhole," goes through and comes out at some other unknown place in the universe.

Now, that really sounds a lot like my checking account. Most of the time it's an area of nothingness where the gravitational pull from between those little blue covers is tremendous, groping for every dollar I have, and after the money gets sucked in there, I'm not sure where it all ends up. I will not be surprised if they find a couple of dollars on Mars that went through this wormhole in my purse.

Well, if I can understand black holes by comparing them to my checking account, surely I can know a lot about God just by comparing him to his creation. The amazing order that everything runs on tells me about his faithfulness. The intricate design of the snowflake tells me how much God is interested in details, and the vastness of space tells me something about the limitless sphere of his presence.

When I look at a giraffe, I want to get inside the mind of the one who could not only come up with a mixture like that but also make it work.

The sound of creation's witness about God is so loud that it just goes to show how far we have fallen and become deaf to it. We need the hearing aid of his spirit in order to pick up those sound waves.

I am glad that everything that science has discovered about creation just tells us more about God, and we don't have to be rocket scientists to understand him. The only requirement is that we be thankful, and our own personal "universes" will just keep on expanding with His presence.

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Author's Bio: Sharon West loves to spend her time watching for God. She watches for him in her job as a secretary in a manufacturing plant and in her life with two teenaged children. She watches for him in all creation, including the two cats and a dog that share her home. She will never cease to be amazed at the unfolding of who he is in this earth, so she seeks to bless people by just pointing and exclaiming, "look!" Sharon's novel, "I Desire Mercy," is the first in a series called "The Mulberry House Mysteries" that she plans to write.  She is also topic editor for the "History of the Bizarre & Mysterious" and "Planet Curiosity," you can find more of Sharon's writings at Sweet Mystery, or contact her by e-mail.