Wearing a heart monitor for a couple of weeks revealed that my heart has an extra beat that is exhausting me upon exertion. I have noticed that walking just a few steps in my neighborhood takes all the energy I have. But the problem, fortunately, is fixable.
When I told a friend about the issue, she said, "You would not think an extra heartbeat would be a problem." And that started me thinking. About eight years ago, my husband had to have surgery to correct the same problem that had progressed to life-threatening status. It seems that the top part of the heart was not communicating with the lower part, so that when blood was pumped into the upper half, the lower part of the heart would not empty it with the same rhythm. (I have not studied the actual process beyond the casual explanation offered by the doctor, so you will have to forgive me any inaccuracies here.)
Anyway, what I was thinking about was the absolute precision and timing of our heartbeats. The rhythm of our hearts must be exactly measured --- neither too fast nor too slow. And both halves of our hearts have to communicate precisely with one another. There is no room for the slightest irregularity!
It is also pretty amazing to me that mankind is able to correct an irregularity when it does occour -- not only with surgery, but sometimes even with just a small pill.
Along the same lines, I watched an interview recently with a priest who wrote a book called Enchanted with Eternity. He mentioned that sometime in the past, Christopher Hawkins dismissed the wonder of our planet by saying we were "an insignificant planet on the edge of the universe." In other words, to Hawkins, there is nothing remarkable at all about our existence or the creation of the world. Recently, however, scientists have started to comment on just how remarkable indeed is the placement of our earth planet "on the edge of the universe." It seems that we are situated at the exact spot that allows us to observe the galaxies of the universe. Any further into the center of the universe, we would not be able to see and to study the elements of space that are now available to our understanding. The comments of this priest made me marvel once again at the precision of God's creation and the wonders of our world. I have ordered the book and will share more in-depth comments once I begin reading it.
A traditional Jewish prayer begins with the words, "Blessed are You, Creator of the universe, for you have given us bread to eat and wine to drink....." Einstein once said, "Any scientist who says he doesn't believe in God is either lying, or he is a very bad scientist." The more we look at creation and its precision, the more the Creator is revealed to us!
