IT REALLY IS GOD'S WORLD

This Is A Wonderful True Story, So worth the read, and an example of our Christian Heritage Worth Remembering And Sharing With The World.
                                        THE MOON AND GOD!!
                                        What was the first liquid and food
consumed on the moon? I'm betting that most are unaware of this story.
                                        Forty-nine years ago (July 20,
1969), two human beings changed history by walking on the surface of the
moon.But, what happened before Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more
amazing, if only because so few people know about it. I'm talking about the
fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon. Some months
after his return, he wrote about it in Guideposts magazine.
  The background to the story is that
Aldrin was an elder at his Presbyterian Church in Texas during this period
in his life; and, knowing that he would soon be doing something
unprecedented in human history, he felt that he should mark the occasion
somehow. He asked his minister to help him and so the minister consecrated a
communion wafer and a small vial of communion wine. Buzz Aldrin took them
with him out of the Earth's orbit and onto the surface of the moon. He and
Armstrong had only been on the lunar surface for a few minutes when Aldrin
made the following public statement:
 "This is the LM (Lunar Module)
pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in,
whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the
events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way." He
then ended radio communication, and there, on the silent surface of the
moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the Gospel of John, and
he took communion.
 Here is his account of what happened:
                                        "In the radio blackout, I opened the
little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the
wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of
the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup.
Then I read the scripture: 'I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever
abides in me will bring forth much fruit ... Apart from me you can do
nothing....  "I had intended to read my communion
passage back to Earth, but at the last minute [they] had requested that I
not do this. NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn
Murray O'Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew's
reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas. I agreed
reluctantly."   "I ate the tiny toast and swallowed
the wine. I gave thanks for the intelligence and spirit that had brought two
young pilots to the Sea of Tranquility. It was interesting for me to think
that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon and the very first food
eaten there were the communion elements."
  "And, of course, it's interesting to
think that some of the first words spoken on the moon were the words of
Jesus Christ, who made the Earth and the moon - and who, in the immortal
words of Dante, is Himself the "Love that moves the Sun and other stars."
The nicest place to be is in
someone's thoughts, the safest place to be is in someone's prayers, and the
very best place to be is in the hands of God. Amen.