What Is Man That You Are Mindful Of Him?

A setting last quarter crescent moon and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere are photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member as the International Space Station passes over central Asia on Sept. 4th, 2010. (NASA) — A setting last quarter crescent moon and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere.

____________________O LORD, our Lord,
___________________________ how majestic is your name in all the earth!
____________________ You have set your glory above the heavens.
___________________________ Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
____________________ You have established strength because of your foes,
___________________________ to still the enemy and the avenger.

Earth and the Moon from afar - when NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft took this image on May 6, 2010, it was 183 million kilometers (114 million miles) away. North is toward the bottom of the image. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) — Earth and the Moon from 114 million miles away.

____________________When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
___________________________the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
____________________what is man that you are mindful of him,
___________________________and the son of man that you care for him?

Hurricane Danielle seen from low Earth orbit on August 28th, 2010. Photo taken by astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock aboard the International Space Station. (NASA/Douglas H. Wheelock) — Hurricane Danielle seen from low Earth orbit on August 28th, 2010.

____________________Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
___________________________and crowned him with glory and honor.
____________________You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
___________________________you have put all things under his feet,
____________________all sheep and oxen,
___________________________and also the beasts of the field,
____________________the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
___________________________whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

On Sept. 8, 2010, a C3-class solar flare erupts from the Sun. Just as a sunspot was turning away from Earth on Sept. 8, the active region erupted, producing a solar flare and a fantastic prominence. The eruption also hurled a bright coronal mass ejection into space. — On Sept. 8, 2010, a C3-class solar flare erupts from the Sun.

____________________O LORD, our Lord,
___________________________how majestic is your name in all the earth!

– text taken from Psalm 8
pictures via The Big Picture

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Jason Hardin September 16, 2010