The late Edgar Cayce said that we are all corpuscles in the body of God. It seems a similar idea to the one your friend had.

William,
When I saw your name here, I thought of you and your wife...as I have so often since you wrote about your journey through AD with her. If I have missed any updates, please excuse...I would like to know how you both are doing.
Linda

As Messenger orbits Mercury maybe we'll discover more about our "giant" universe; if one part can die before another or what. Who knows what part we play in it all.

Personally, I think that's a very profound comment for a five year old but then I remember at age five having quite a serious, albeit limited, discussion with my best friend about whether there is really a God. I hope you kept in touch with your friend. It would be interesting to know the direction he took in life.
And it's good to hear from you. Hope you're doing well. In fact I was thinking about you. We have a friend whose very beloved wife has Alzheimers and he has been traveling a similar path as devoted caregiver. Is there a direct link to those blogs?

Children have such vivid imaginations. I used to say that when it thundered it was because God was angry.

We know so much more about the universe now, but we are probably in the infancy stage. I guess your friends comment was as good as any on what it all means.

I, too, hope you are recovering from your long ordeal with your wife's illness.

What lucky boys you were to have a field for that nighttime peek into the universe. I too wonder what happened to that pal..I still have two girlfriends from early childhood & when we got together for my retirement June 2008, the two of them, that I have been able to keep contact with because I am relentless, had not seen each other since l958..But it seemed as if we had all just been away for awhile or something..We all chuckled after taking our our glssses to read the menu; it was wonderful..brought up to believe we are all creatures of God, I think of the stars and the other beauties of life as creations of His too..so nice reading others messages to you...good karma for you and your wife...write more...

Back when I was actively fathering, my eight year old son was asking me how many stars there were.
I reflected on this for a while and started my patter:
“Well, Jack, we’ve seen the beach before, full of sand, right?"
“Yeah.”
“And what if each of those little grains of sand was a star, and each one of those stars had a planet, you know, like our sun and the earth?"
“Okay.”
“And each of those planets of all of THOSE stars had beaches themselves.”
“Yeah.”
“Then you have to understand that each of THOSE beaches had grains of sand, and each of THOSE was a star with planets.”
“Okay.”
“As many of those grains of sands as you can imagine, well, there are more stars than that.”
He thought about this for only a second, then said, “Well, we’re not really here, are we?”

I am thinking we are the giant and as Steve's son stated [posted above '...not really here']. We are mostly "more here" than there while here and when we die we are "all there" entirely with the giant. If the giant died we would all have to live in mortal coil forever. There would be no more stardust in a newborn's eyes and no more need to stare at the night sky in wonder at our giant-ness and it's well-being.

Thank you for sharing your little story, William. I am now going to tend to the care and feeding of my giant!

very deep and profound--do we all have this ability--or do we- just brush it away as we do with crumbs---without a seconds thought?--we are truly very small specks in this universe.