The Deep Field of the Universe: Encountering the Face of Creation

In Homing In, I tell about a dream that I had when I was a young teenager. In my dream I experienced what appeared to be was the end of the world, and I went with my grandmother to be taken up. Candlewood Lake, where I lived was reflecting the storm that was brewing destruction. The looming storm clouds appeared as a sign of the end times. While I flew over our region, in a kind of open flying machine, I understood that hell was the suffering I was witnessing on Earth. I took in an overview that saddened me.
 
Marnie, my dear grandmother, was patiently knitting in a kind of waiting room where we both were waiting our turn to be transported. But I couldn’t wait, I was impatient. I needed to go up immediately, even if it meant leaving my grandmother behind and risking the possibility of being separated from my family. Suddenly, I ascended in a tube-like cylinder that transported me.
 
Right before my eyes was the face of God. My whole body knew I was encountering the divine. There were three stars against a deep blue background that seemed to be a kind of trinity made of star sapphires shining brightly. I can remember thinking that if I was meeting God, that I must be dead. Still, I was filled with a kind of bliss that I have never found words able to convey.
 
Then surprisingly, I awoke alive with this vision that was imprinted in my whole Self or mind-body memory. I can’t explain my dream, nor understand why I was shown what I comprehended to be the face of creation. But recently, new NASA pictures were shared and one of the photos looks like the trinity of stars that I encountered in my dream.
 
Mystery is the foundation of faith. When I look at this photo I am filled with radical amazement for this image of the deep field of the Universe. We have all been offered the possibility to take a glimpse at the face of Creation and experience the ineffable. As humanity searches for its origins, we are discovering the deep field that generates life-form.
 
These explorations through time and space bring us closer to what Christians refer to as the Trinity. Looking at the face of God, revealed to us through NASA’s technology, is awe inspiring. These photos allow us to penetrate the mystery, traveling deep into the Universe. Each picture captures a unique unveiling of the divine.

Link to NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet