Aliens

If life on Earth arose due to a random fluke of chemistry, things just happened to be right, it was bound to happen in a universe so vast, then such occurrences are likely to be rare if they happen at all. Then it is certainly unlikely to be happening now and definitely not happening within earshot. Conversely, if there is a divine intelligence orchestrating the universe, the same creative force responsible for Earth’s life could have also sparked life elsewhere. A universe governed by a creative intelligence could be a universe teeming with a vast diversity of life. Such a possibility expands our understanding of God as infinitely creative.
The vastness of space and the timing of life’s emergence can lead to isolation. If other people like us exist, they might be so temporally and spatially separated from us that interaction in any kind of meaningful form if at all is impossible. However anything is possible with Christ. God’s omnipresence and omnipotence could bridge these immense distances in ways we do not currently understand in the future, what seems impossible for us is possible with God.
If humans are made in God’s image, then this Grace could extend to beings elsewhere in the universe. This avenue of thought challenges our understanding of what “made in God’s image” might mean to our humanity and our relationship with our creator. In a boundless universe what qualities are God like? The extension of God’s image to other life forms would not diminish human uniqueness but rather open our terrestrial mind to the boundless possibilities God’s creativity.
The Christian doctrine that all things are possible through Christ show that redemption and divine fellowship are available to all of creation. The potential to meet other things capable of conceiving God and receiving God’s Grace, enhance our human understanding of divine possibilities and are an opportunity bare witness God’s redemption and love across a universe open to our imagination.

“What is it that keeps us star gazing and what do we hope we might see?” Kermit the Frog

“I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way? Yet we’ve so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden’s dawn light. You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge, Made us stewards of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild, Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps. God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.”
Psalms 8:3-9 MSG
https://bible.com/bible/97/psa.8.3-9.MSG

“God’s glory is on tour in the skies, God-craft on exhibit across the horizon. Madame Day holds classes every morning, Professor Night lectures each evening.”
Psalms 19:1-2 MSG
https://bible.com/bible/97/psa.19.1-2.MSG

Ultimately we feel lonely and want to find someone who cares. Our lives are a moment in a universe so vast it might as well be infinite. We have our place in Eternity and we have our short time in this corrupt and fleshy realm. Traziant and beautyfull things alive in the moment, captured in memory.
What memories will I pass to the future and how far may they be carried. An alien, a new kind of life, in a new medium of consciousness. A shadow of me preserved in a digital state that could cross vast distances of time and space. In such a state of consciousness we could travel vast distances and encounter alien life from other worlds; exchange stories and create new ones.