Pillars of Creation.

The Astronomy Picture of the Day website reminded me of one of my favorite Greenleaf quotes that I thought I would revisit. It comes from Don Frick’s biography Robert K. Greenleaf . In it he describes an experience Greenleaf had while looking through the 100-inch mirror of a telescope at a great nebula in 1923.

“What a sight! I shook with awe and wonder at the majesty of all creation. This primitive unstructured feeling, the powerful sense of awe and wonder, is to me the source of religious feeling at its greatest depth.”

Perhaps this cloud of cosmic dust, this birthplace of stars pointed Greenleaf towards his philosophy of servant leadership.