In so many ways, it's a fractured universe.  In so many other ways, however, it's a beautiful universe.  Day in and day out, it overwhelms us with its magnificence, a magnificence whose depths we often cannot fathom.
     But we try anyway.  And why not?  Better to believe, though not always seeing, the beauty, than to never believe at all.  Can we really deny it's there?
     How else can we really be?