Perhaps you've seen "Midnight Sky," the much talked about new offering from Netflix.  Based on the 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton (a novel which has little to do with another novel of the same name published in the thirties by Jean Rhys), "Midnight Sky" tells the story of a scientist living alone in a research outpost in the far North who is one of the only people to survive a global catastrophe that killed most of the planet's inhabitants.  As a result of the catastrophe (whose precise nature is never fully explained), the planet's air is toxic and unbreathable.  No one will live above ground again.

     Far away, returning from a two year long expedition to explore one of Jupiter's moons, a spaceship heads to Earth, its crew members looking forward to being at home.  After an arduous journey from his outpost to an even more remote weather station, the scientist, Augustine Lofton, finally establishes contact with the spaceship, named Aether.  He tells them to go back to Jupiter's inhabitable moon.

     At this point, only two crew members, a man and woman, are still on the ship.  One perished in a spacewalk, and two others took a transport pod and bravely flew to the Earth's surface to find their families.  The woman, however, is pregnant with their child.  Remembering Lofton's prominence (aside from his eccentricity) in the scientific community, the two surviving crew members heed his advice.

     They leave to start a new world.

     What would you do?  Would you take a chance on a new world?  Or would you brave your way into the decimated old?

     Put another way, what are you most willing to trust:  what you hope in the new or what you remember from the old?  As we go into 2021, ponder this question.  Ponder your life, ponder God:  what is most worth knowing?

     Happy New Year!