Inspiration for Writing Cosmos

Have your cheeks ever hurt from grinning too much?  Twice in my lifetime I have greeted the day with sore cheeks.  The first was the morning after my wedding day. The second was the morning after I went snorkeling on a coral reef.  

Every time I put my face in the water, I would see another amazing creature or plant life that I had not spotted before.  I simply could not stop grinning!  I even remember laughing out loud with my face still in the water.  

I was laughing at God – yes – laughing at the sheer joy God must have had in creating all these amazing creatures with such incredible beauty and variety!  It was almost too much to take in!

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Then came the Hubble telescope!  The first time I saw Hubble images from space, I didn’t grin at all.  I could hardly speak, really.  It was more like an awestruck whisper…
​WOW… WOW…WOW!  ​

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​When I saw this Hubble image containing at least 10,000 unknown galaxies, not stars, but GALAXIES,
I said to myself, “God is even bigger than we think!”  That was the beginning of my inspiration for writing the song, Cosmos. 

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My mind was blown again recently when I heard the number of galaxies in the universe surpass the number of grains of sand on the earth.  If King David were living today, perhaps he would pen the words of Psalm 139 a little differently?

How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.
    They cannot be numbered!
 I can’t even count them;
    they outnumber the grains of sand [galaxies of the universe]

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​Just this week, the church choir I am privileged to accompany sang these words from Psalm 147 in Chris Tomlin’s song, Indescribable...

​Now THAT is something to grin about!!!

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Enjoy my video below of Cosmos set to Hubble images!

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