March 14, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Friday, March 14.
We continue today with our series on the Creator and His creation, leading to next Thursday, the first day of spring.
On Christmas Eve, 1968, Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman, did something extraordinary. They were the first men, as astronauts aboard Apollo 8, to orbit the moon. And on that special night, they shared some extraordinary words during a broadcast back to Earth. It was the most watched TV program in history, seen by a billion people in 64 countries. If you were one of those viewers, I’m sure that it’s a moment that you well remember. On the night before Christmas, the astronauts read the first ten verses of the Bible.
Commander Borman, after deciding to include scripture in the historic broadcast, wrestled with the decision of which scripture passage to choose. At first, because of the holiday, he thought of reading the nativity story from the 2nd chapter of Luke. He also considered reading passages on peace, since America was in the middle of the Vietnam War. But finally, he focused on the creation story found in Genesis 1:1-10. Each man read a few verses with Borman sharing the last two.
“And God said, let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He seas; and God saw that it was good.”
And then Frank Borman closed the broadcast with these words - “and from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on this good Earth.”
Meet you back here on Monday,
David
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