If you could high to Kolob...

This last week, there was a good size solar flare. I've long been fascinated by the behavior of the sun. It is an incredible rock, an unbelievable star....A "Rock Star" if ever there was one. The earth is fascinating too, of course.

You know that the sun is 93 million miles away from earth? Ever wonder just how perfectly placed we are? If we were just one tenth of one percent closer or further, none of this exists. Coincidence?

The sun is the just the perfect distance to provide about 1 kilowatt of power for every meter of earth's surface. Not too close, not too far. Most scientists tell us this is coincidental. Or even accidental. It's just accidental that great vast cold clouds of hydrogen can mingle for hundreds of millions of years in the abyss of space, and then, when a certain threshold or proximity is randomly reached as those clouds come together, that they co incidentally coalesce and then fuse into helium, pulling in more and more gas and matter, and as it begins to spin and contract, and rotate faster and faster, and then, boom--it spits out radiation and carbon and a hostof other elements into the vastness space and we end up HERE, on this perfectly placed sphere!?

Is it also co incidental that the earth, unlike other moons in the milky way possesses a protective covering, deflecting just enough radiant heat to make the earth the perfect place for every form of organicity to thrive?

What is the probability of this most perfect of alignments and distances of each of these spheres? How is that our rock is so perfectly placed in relation to the Sun?

Accident? Coincidence? Really?

When I ponder on these questions, I am reminded of the great LDS poet and musician W.W. Phelps, a contemporary of Joseph Smith, who penned marvelous words in his 1840 work, "If You Could High to Kolob". Kolob, of course, is the name given by Abraham to the physical throne of God. I am reminded also that there is no end to knowledge, no end to space, no end to truth, and no end to us. And because there is no end, we need have no fear.