moon muse

i was watching apollo 13 (a favourite movie of mine) and there is this scene where jim lovell (played by tom hanks) is dreaming of walking on the moon that is so close but so far away. he sees him self jumping from the lunar extraction module (lem) and running his hands through the white powder of the moon's surface. then in his dream he sees himself look up and out and the earth hovers distantly slightly obscured in shadow and as he stares at it's quietly beautiful image- i'm wondering what is running through his mind. to be so far from home, standing on another object spinning in space and to see a panoramic view of the world before you... the purples blues and greens underneath whisps of white- i would just stare in awe of the sight. looking at the earth from afar... seeing it against the abyss of space. the wonders that God hath wrought. He stretched out the heavens. He calls each star by name. each star that blinks from its million miles away. to see from His perspective, like standing on the moon.