WASHINGTON — Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That’s got them scratching their heads about what’s just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That’s an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.
Excuse me? A hole in the universe? When I heard this on BBC World Service last night I was stunned. I’m even more baffled this morning as I’m reading about it. How can the universe have a hole in it? How can there be such a great expanse of nothing?
I wonder, though, if there can be something so inexplicable as a hole in the universe, 100 million light years of nothing where something should be, is it too far fetched to think that a hole can exist in the human spirit?
Often in 12 step meetings one hears people talk of a God sized hole in their spirit. Lots of those same people came into the fellowship with an inexorable atheism or at least an agnosticism bordering on hate. I’m not one of those. I have always believed that I was created by some greater power that had set the universe in motion. I just thought that after His work was done He just sat back to enjoy the show. The idea that such a Creator could be concerned with and involved in human affairs struck me as ridiculous.
I am not absolutely sure I’ve changed my mind on that point. In fact I may be more agnostic than I was before I sought recovery though I am more convinced that God comes to those who seek Him. The 3rd step decision I made was to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I don’t understand him.
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