one above all, a central point of demarcation for all of creation, past present and future.

"the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness."

Be it fair weather or foul, as a television pastor in Texas says, we need to "remember what God did for us."

Science randomizes creation to an extent, even while trying to put fine points on particulars.  They look at life, often, as sort of an improbable accident of nature.

In this respect, we may look upon our science text to support our Christian apologetic.

*Life is a miracle.

Only God could set that wheel into motion, as varying theories coalesce to decide that it could very well be foreseen, that a spark at one point, has a clear line of sight to the creation of life billions of years later.  Knowing the variables, one could predict any number of reactions and states of matter many years either ahead or behind in the past.

God could know, even on the first of the six Creation Days, that the world would come to pass, and that life, at some point in the future, would bloom on that barren little world.

Even the ancients with their plurality of demi-gods believed in a singular force above all of them: a father figure.  He begat this one and that one, and so forth.  Aurelius was speaking from ancient Roman imperial era orthodoxy speaking of gods, but then reminding there was a chief among them, one most knowing and powerful.

*Mortal men were incapable of deceiving or defrauding that one top-most figure.

And then as the world is in the shadow of the Lord, "after death", the world is given a covenant promise from that central figure: good wishes and forgiveness for those that ask.

Those moments when the world's forces overshadow "what God did for us", those times can seem dark and hopeless, but immediately, a remembrance of heaven and the cross can draw us back into remembrance.