A Great Run
A Great Run Devotional for the United Church of Christ Science and Technology Network October 14, 2017 Rev. Dr. Ruth E. Shaver Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. —Psalm 90:2, NRSV I blame my parents. They sat me down in front of PBS in primetime and made me watch NOVA and Nature and Cosmos (with Carl Sagan) and then took me to church on Sundays. It was inevitable that I’d grow up thinking God has an amazing imagination to have written the laws that led to human intellect and curiosity over “billions and billions” of years. Well, not inevitable , but certainly likely. It was definitely impossible that I’d be a Creationist. I knew by the age of 10 that human civilizations had been around in Mesopotamia by at least 5000 BCE ( now estimated at 6000 BCE ), which meant that my first reaction as a junior in high school to Bishop Ussher’s date of