And by later, I mean 5 billion years or so, you just might witness what happens to planet Earth when our sun enters its red giant stage of life. We orbit around a G-type star (yellow dwarf) we call the Sun. When such a star reaches the end of life, it has depleted the hydrogen needed to keep the core nuclear fusion going. The star begins to turn to other internal fuel sources, loses mass, the core gets hotter and the plasma atmosphere expands. Eventually, our sun will grow more than 200 times as wide as its present size. Continue reading
If you are around later…
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A lot of our life hoovers around the question, “What’s next?” It is that part of us that is ever looking ahead to try and pierce the veil that covers our future. Even as we peer into the future life inexorably moved ahead in its journey through time silently pleading that we are mindful of the time give us. And we were just given the Season of Advent. We were asked to prepare, to wait in expectation for Emmanuel, God-with-us, the promised from of old, the King of Kings…and now it is Christmas. And our Savior is born to us! 
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