Blessed Easter
THE CELEBRATION OF RESURRECTION
Spring Garden Tulips. — Painting by Bob Kirchman
NASA Astronaut Delivers Bold Easter Message from Deep Space: Earth Is God’s Oasis in the Void
NASA’s Victor Glover, the Christian pilot of the Artemis II mission, just dropped a faith-packed reminder straight from the Orion spacecraft thousands of miles from Earth. While the world obsesses over secular divides, this American hero looked back at our planet and saw the hand of the Creator.
“I’m glad you brought that up, though. I think these observances are important,” Glover said. “And as we are so far from Earth and looking at, you know, the beauty of creation... when I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us who were created, it’s profound.”
He described our world as no accident but a deliberate gift from God.
“You have this amazing place, this spaceship,” Glover explained. “You guys are talking to us because we’re in a spaceship really far from Earth. But you’re on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe, in the cosmos.”
Glover didn’t mince words about the emptiness beyond our atmosphere.
“Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we’re doing is special, but we’re the same distance from you. And I’m trying to tell you, just trust me, you are special in all of this emptiness. This is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe. You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.”
As Easter Sunday approached, he called for real unity rooted in truth.
“I think as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about, you know, all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing. And that we’ve got to get through this together.”
This is the same spirit that drove Apollo 8’s crew to read from Genesis while orbiting the Moon. In an age of doubt and division, Glover’s words from the final frontier cut through the noise: America leads in space because we never forgot who built the stars. Faith isn’t outdated. It’s the fuel for greatness.
