The Rev. Hal Chorpenning tells about a visit he made to a planetarium. What he heard there is that you and I are made literally from stardust. Our wonderful human bodies are made of matter that once was a star. He goes on to say, "Perhaps on a scientific level, that isn't terribly exciting, but on a metaphoric level, it's mind‑blowing. We have the Genesis story of Adam being created from earth, and we have the scientific story of humanity being created from the stars."

I'm not going to quibble with that. In fact I am going to say the planetarium got it right.  Listen to the words of St. Paul in I Corinthians: "The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven." 

Those words were written by the apostle Paul to the church in Corinth 2,000 years ago.  We've heard that we were created from the dust of the earth, but have you ever thought of us being star-dust? It is both literally and figuratively true. We are, according to God, somebody. Made from earth's dirt, made from star's dust, made for heaven.