{"id":41083,"date":"2026-02-01T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/?p=41083"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:31:35","slug":"thelittlegirlsquestion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/thelittlegirlsquestion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The little girl&#8217;s question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the first Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin announced in 1961 that he had not seen God in space, a twelve-year-old girl from Gothenburg in Sweden wrote him the following: &#8220;Dear cosmonaut Gagarin, I have heard that you have been in space and say that you have not seen God. May I ask you if you have a pure heart?&#8221; (Matthew 5, 8)<\/p>\n\n<p>Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin had a completely different reaction. He said: &#8220;<strong>I realized on the moon that it was more important that Jesus Christ put his foot on the earth than man put his foot on the moon!<\/strong>&#8221; <\/p>\n\n<p>He went on to say: &#8220;We only ever see what our heart allows us to see. We can see God&#8217;s glory, his love and his blessings &#8211; in space and on earth &#8211; when we have God in our hearts. In my life, I have experienced time and again how God has met me and spoken to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.<\/p>\n<cite><em>Matthew 5, 8<\/em> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><strong>Text of the week: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/ESV\/Matthew5%3A1-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matthew 5, 1-12<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>How happy are you in your heart?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the first Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin announced in 1961 that he had not seen God in space, a twelve-year-old girl from Gothenburg in Sweden wrote him the following: &#8220;Dear cosmonaut Gagarin, I have heard that you have been in space and say that you have not seen God. May I ask you if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de_blog","category-en_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41098,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41083\/revisions\/41098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}