George III

I try to write something specifically about the "1776 decision" every fourth of July (approximately) since rethinking 1776 is the topic of this blog.
This year I write of George III.  He was monarch of England when England ruled American colonies oppressively.
I studied portraits of him first. (Bible says to pray for those in authority over us. It is easier for me to pray for someone can when i can visualize that one. Bible says God is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him. Bible says God answers prayer.) I felt that if I am going to judge the colonists who rebelled against the ruler in authority over them, I want to know how they should have prayed; and how hard it may have been for them to think charitably of the leaders in England (and in colonies).
[An aside here: the word charity is translation of Greek word "agape" which means the perfect love which Creator God has for His Creation and each of His creatures; and that God and Jesus call their followers to have toward all. God's kind of love.].  So, . . .

George III was born 2 months premature. The family and doctors were, of course, not sure he would survive so had him privately baptized immediately; and later a public baptism. He had big "bug eyes" or "google eyes". Generally a nice looking man, though (if the portraitist s can be believed.) He was Queen Victoria's grandfather.
He married the woman that his mother and her advisors chose for him; and gave up the young woman he first wanted to marry when the advisors didn't accept her. He did not take a mistress. He had many children.
He was grandson of a German royalty , Frederick , of Hanover. He spoke English and German both from childhood.
He had periods of mental illness, but also times of mental good health. Some medical experts now think he may have had "porfiry".
He was the longest ruling English monarch up to his time, becoming King near 20 years old when his grandfather died(around 1740.) ( His father had already died.) He died in 1820. But his son reigned in his place his last 10 years , as he was mentally ill then.
Aside from being the King that the American colonists rebelled against, he is known to have purchased the land where Buckingham palace now is.

BACK TO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

I'm thinking , this morning, about how God pays attention to us on this tiny planet with our sun, floating somewhere in the universe.
Perhaps in the actual "physical" center of the universe is a super black hole. We are not there. Yeay! (Do you want to be there?)
I'm thinking of Galileo standing before the Church leaders (1616 to 1633) trying to be true to himself (integrity) about his understanding of the Earth orbiting around the sun. The Church leaders could not at that time accept that the Earth was not the physical center of the universe (ie. The solar system.)
I think about Isaac Azimov's sci fi creation, Trantor, the city planet that was the capitol of the galaxy wide government in his FOUNDATION trilogy. The planet was relatively near the center of the galaxy; but of course it was not at the center. The center was giant black hole surrounded by really hot stuff. Not a good place for life.
So nowadays we are not concerned about whether the Earth is at the physical center of the galaxy or solar system or universe. I personally can conceive of the Earth as perhaps the center of God's plans (inasmuch as it is His home that He made for mankind which He made in His image) without the Earth being at that center.
Even non believing scientists wonder at the thought that the Earth perhaps could not have developed as it has without this entire giant universe surrounding it.