My friend, Kevin Hartnett, is the author of a new book releasing next week that would make a fabulous Father's Day gift for any man who loves stargazing. The Heavens: Intimate Moments with Your Majestic God is an unusual devotional because it combines photographs of the universe with reflections and poetry written by a man who is NASA's Deputy Science Operations Manager for the Hubble Space Telescope.
The devotionals address topics such as beauty, sovereignty, solitude, justice, love, pride, self-sufficiency and anger. But they also address more complex ideas such as "Glimpsing God in the Andromeda Galaxy" and "Phosphors in the Cosmos." One of my favorite devotions is a poem Kevin wrote, influenced by Spurgeon, called "So I Will Praise Him in the Night." Here is an excerpt:
Shall we then seek that He explain
The circle of His blessing?
Our daily rhythms here maintain
Great patterns there expressing.
For sorrows come until the Day
When Night itself will vanish.
Till Wisdom has its perfect way,
And Light will Darkness banish.
The happy soul is then content
To know that He is faithful,
And through each difficult event
Remembers to be grateful.
For God commands each circumstance
To serve those of His calling.
His care enjoins the nightingale
To sing when dusk is falling.
So I will praise Him in the night,
This globe of sorrows surely turns.
See there His stars of promise bright:
Behold, the light of dawn returns.
You can pre-order the book at Amazon.
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