"In the Beginning..."

In orbit around the moon, the Apollo 8 crew on Christmas 1968:

William Anders:

"For all the people on Earth the crew of Apollo 8 has a message we would like to send you".
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."

 Jim Lovell:

"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."

Frank Borman:

"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."

Borman then added, "And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth."

It's mindboggling, really. How God created our world, Earth, a one-of-a-kind, just-perfect place for us to live. That in itself is a wonder! But then to think that God's Son, Jesus, came down to our little world (amid millions!) and lived here as a human, and died to save us all. He didn't have to do it. And God's created millions, trillions of gorgeous worlds! And to think he came down to us, little tiny us, to save us so we could live with Him forever.

This Christmas, let us thank Jesus for making our wonderful world, for coming to our world, dieing, and thus opening an option that we could live with Him forever.

~Photobug

P.S.--To see what the broadcast really looked and sounded like, watch the video below! :)
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