In the Beginning

One evening recently I walked almost a mile under myriads of stars.  I found myself asking - " Where have all the stars come from?  When did they come into being?  What keeps them on their vast courses? "
A few years ago a lecture was given by Frank Jeffries, astronomer and scientist.
Here is a small extract :-

" Friends," he said, addressing his audience, " The greatest thinkers throughout the ages, including modern times, have utterly failed to give a satisfactory explanation as to how and when this world came into existence.  Whatever theory they have worked on, they have eventually come face to face with the necessity of a first cause  which they cannot define; so for ever they stumble along - and all the time, walking patiently behind them, hoping they will turn and look Him in the face, is the first cause, the Lord God of heaven and earth."

So there, alone with the stars and their maker I realised afresh that however unfashionable it may be the Book of Genesis gets amazingly near the truth - " In the beginning, God. "

This is from yet another slip of hand written paper, stuck in my scrapbook, with no date or author attached to it.  Another slip of paper adjacent to the above, written in the same hand has the initials- M.S. - in the bottom corner.  I believe they are from the late 1970's and would have been passed to me by a speaker at the Bon-Accord SNU Church.