Scoping a Galaxy Far, Far Away

The Hubble shows me marvels
from the ancient past --
I eyeball a galaxy
50 million light years away,
but what do I really see?
Light that took
50 million years
to travel here.

I don't know
what any part of that galaxy is like.
I don't know
what's happening there today.

If some advanced beings from there come to visit,
they can tell me more.
But even they won't know
every detail
of every single star and planet.

I see a spiral.
They look up and see stars in their sky.

God knows every atom
in their bodies and in mine
intimately -- with a Creator's love.

"My friends,
we are now God's children,
but it is not clear
what we shall become.
But we know that
when Christ appears,
we shall be like him,
because we shall see him
as he really is." (1 John 3:2)

Dear God, let it be true.