View from space

Okie Dokie, Artiechokies... I am putting some Glade Sanitizers all around this post in every corner.. airing it out...

I have to say that I feel so much better.. so much lighter. So much more.. yeah, cleansed. I have heard that word thrown around so much in different ways, but never really knew what it meant, but now, well, I have had a dose of it.

I went on NASA's site. I pulled up one of those really clear pictures of the earth that they took from one of those high dollar satellites that they put into space. Yeah, I don't know the name of it. I am so ignorant about those things that it is sad. They spent all of that money and all of that research to do that, and I didn't even take the time to remember the name of the satellite.

This is what I did do, though. And it did take some of my time, not as much time as it took to put the satellite into space.. I'll give them that. I looked up where all of the people that responded to my last post came from... all that had listed their locations...

On NASA's site, there was a picture from space that showed the Earth in all of her magnificent glory. And when I say that, I cannot even begin to describe how I feel about that. It brings me almost to my knees.

Anyway... I found my location on our beautiful big planet as best as I thought I could. Then, I started trying to find the locations of those who had left comments for me.

What I found in doing that is that even though it is a big world indeed... it is not so big of a world after all. Being able to look at it from "outside of it" made it seem small and manageable.

I was looking at it all and I was able to see all of you with your "go-go-gadget" arms reaching out to me. It was as if there were no barriers. How is it that that is possible if we live in different towns? Cities? States? Countries? Continents?

We, as human beings, have now found a way to communicate with each other in an instant across the world and give comfort to one another. I was able to gain comfort, real comfort from people that I have never met.

For heaven's sake... there were people PRAYING for me.. that did not even know me...

People are having riots in the world right now complaining about.. What is this world coming to? I will tell them... This world is a wonderful, wonderful place...

Again, I do not know who started the whole space program... I do not know who put that particlar satellite into space that showed me that particular view of the earth that I was able to see. But, could they, would they ever know that there would one day be a person whose entire life would be changed because they realized that love from across the entire world could pour in within a matter of seconds?

Surely, that was not their intention... But, does that really matter? So many discoveries are being made from those satellites going up into space... So many scientific, really-do-matter discoveries are being made...

But, to me, this really-did-matter. Your comments really did matter. And let me tell you how they impacted my life all the way around...

I don't have any idea if you saw the light hearted movie "Bruce Almighty"... It was funny... it was.. But at one point in the movie, Jim Carrey was able to see his girlfriend praying for him, and it touched him so profoundly that it changed him... he also was able to hear prayers from people... and it changed him...

I don't know how to explain this to you.. I don't... Again, this has nothing at all to do with religious affiliation and it is not to sound sacriligious. But, I am telling you all, I felt your "prayers" for me, for lack of another word. With each comment that came in, I felt comforted.

And when I went onto that NASA sight and looked at our planet, it was as if those engineers all those years ago had made that satellite just for me as if to say, "See, Kayce, this big ole world can handle what ever it is you need. Just ask. We are all here for you. You just have to ask us."

There was one blog that I went to when I was searching around that had a guy named Matt Hardy that just went all over the world dancing.. yeah, dancing.. and everyone joined him. And you know me and my dancing. I was just pouring tears of gratitude to be led to that site. I watched it 5 times. The world can be pulled together in such small ways.

Of course, NASA spent a cajillion dollars doing it and their image, again, pulled me to my knees... but honestly... it was you guys that have put me on my knees several times in the last few days in severe gratitude....

As I explained, eighteen years years ago, at age 23, my life changed forever.... and now at age 41, it did again...