As Christians celebrate Easter, the Artemis II crew continues its 10-day journey through the vastness of space with the goal of exploring the dark side of the moon. On Good Friday, NASA communicated with its astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen mid-journey. Glover professes faith in Jesus Christ and prayed a beautiful and moving prayer before they were launched into space, so the NASA communications asked him whether he had any special message for Good Friday and the upcoming Easter Sunday.
What Glover articulated was, in my eyes, jaw-dropping and awe inspiring:
I believe these observances are important. As we are so far from earth and looking back at the beauty of creation, I think for me, one of the really important, personal perspectives that I have up here is that I can really see earth as one thing. And you know, when I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us who are created, it's... you have this amazing place, this spaceship. You guys are talking to us because we are in a spaceship really far from earth, but you're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe — the cosmos — and maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we're doing is special. But we're the same distance from you, and I'm trying to tell you, just trust me, you are special.
In all of this emptiness, this is a whole bunch of nothing this thing we call the universe, you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist, together. I think as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about all the cultures all around the world. Whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, this is an opportunity to remember where we are, WHO we are, and that we are the same thing and we gotta get through this together.
Deeply profound and amazing. However, his words are most powerful when you hear them from his own mouth.
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As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth. pic.twitter.com/GpwdeovpCR
— NASA (@NASA) April 5, 2026
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As someone who will never go to space, and have no desire to, my sense of wonder over being a special part of God's creation is experienced stationed on this third rock from the sun. I have created a new habit (weather permitting) of sitting outside in the morning for my prayer and devotion time. Sitting in nature, and putting the Hebrew word "Selah" into action. One of the joys of now living in the countryside is that a variety of birds flit, fly, and hop around my yard, foraging for their food and sharing their conversations.
As a former city dweller, it's a wondrous thing to listen and distinguish the different coos, calls, and responses from each bird. It's quite deep. And the birds are SO FAT. Not like the scrawny city birds I used to sporadically see. I don't have a feeder set out yet, but between the trees and gardens in our surrounding neighborhood, these birds are well fed, content, and seemingly really happy.
So, like Astronaut Glover from his perch within the cosmos, I get to ponder on how special I am from my perch on my chaise lounge. Matthew 6:26 says:
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Glover is blessed to understand this profundity from observing God's creation from the vastness of space, and I am blessed to understand this profundity by observing God's creation in my tiny yard. Different perspectives that render the same conclusion.
Both of us are highly privileged, because any time we consider the work of God's hands, whether from space or Earth, the end result is always wonder. And wonder breeds thanksgiving and marvel at just how special we are to God. So special that he sent his only begotten Son to die that we might live and delight not only in the beautiful creation in which he designed for us to reside, but in the beautiful universe where we can find him everywhere, and live in joy, peace and wonder over all he has made.
But it's not solely for us to have a relationship with him as Creator and Lord, but so that we can be in relationship with the creation around us: including our fellow humans.
From the Garden to the Resurrection, God created us to walk with him, and walk with one another other. Astronaut Glover has discovered this in circling the sun in his space travels, and I have discovered this by worshipping the Son each morning.
Where will your discovery be?
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