"Let us reverentially contemplate with the eyes of faith the Infant Babe. What sublime mysteries rise up before the soul! The Son of God is clasped and confined in Mary's arms, yet planets and systems revolve in His immensity. The Babe appears weak and helpless, yet He is the Omnipotent by Whom all things were made; His tiny Hand sustains, as it was He that produced, the universe."
~ Rev. T. H. Kinane, P.P., The Lamb of God, imprimatur 1880 Dublin.

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I recently helped my daughter with a science experiment about the planet Neptune. Did you know that it's 2.795 BILLION miles from the sun? Looking up these facts inspired and amazed us with the enormity of the universe that God created. And the above quote kept ringing in my head - "yet planets and systems revolve in His immensity."

A tiny Babe in a manger...looking like any other newborn (except for His Infinite Beauty), and yet "His tiny Hand sustains the universe." Food for thought, eh?