Life Thrust Forth

Life Thrusts Forth

"Sister, behold the wondrous offering I send forth unto you: the essence of existence itself, the gift of life."

"Life, you say? From where I stand, life seems fraught with trials and tribulations."

"Sister, life is the quintessence of creation, the pinnacle of all joys in the cosmos."

"But is it not brief and riddled with strife, causing anguish and sorrow?"

"Do you know what they call me, sister?"

"The humans speak your name as Mother Earth. But what does it mean to be a mother?"

"To be a mother is the highest honor bestowed upon me by the Creator. It is to bring forth life, fragile yet magnificent, a testament to the splendor of existence. Through life, I find purpose and offer my gratitude to the Creator for the wonders bestowed upon me."

"My emissaries hasten to you, bearing this extraordinary gift. Sister, you have long been barren, but once life stirs within you, you will fiercely guard it with all your might."

As the celestial dance between Earth and moon persisted, the messengers of Earth readied themselves to bestow the precious gift upon their sister.

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"Mission control, Lunar Mission 18 here. We finished setting up the greenhouse. Everything checks out. There are no leaks anywhere. The irrigation and air systems are working as designed." The astronaut/biologist looked at his little tent greenhouse. With the amount of money it cost, he could build tens of acres of greenhouses on Earth. However, here on the moon, the amount of air needed limited the size. Even compressed, the amount of air they needed took up a disproportional amount of their cargo hold.

"Lunar mission 18, mission control here. You have the green light to plant the first seeds on the moon."

The botanist/astronaut turned on the irrigation system, and water, nitrogen, potassium, phosphate, and micro-elements dripped onto the parched lunar soil.

Water was not foreign to the moon, but it was rare, and she had never sensed it before in that place. It felt so good.

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At once, the Moon sensed something else. Why did her experience cause such anticipation? She realized the earthling scratched her surface. He implanted something foreign into her. Then, to her surprise, the tiny speck from Earth absorbed the water. The moon cut off her spiritual connection with Earth and concentrated every one of her abilities to understand what had happened to her.

Amazed by how rapidly things changed, the moon was in awe of her Creator. The transformation had always been slow with her. Now, this experience brought something new and different. For the first time, she sensed organic compounds. They were so different. The excitement that grew within her must have been what her sister had talked about: this wonder of life.

It took her by surprise: the synthesis of messenger RNA. Now she understood the hand of the Creator laid upon her. It was as if He created everything from scratch just for her. The moon saw the great intelligence of nucleic acids and marveled at its ability to store so much knowledge.

Now the tiny seed changed again, its starches degraded, providing the building blocks for coming changes.

The moon stood in awe of its Creator. As the seed's metabolism worked, the changes came fast. Glycolysis, fermentation, and starch hydrolysis began. Biochemical pathways became active, and the moon was a humbling experience of what occurred within her.