I heard physicist Brian Cox recently, pondering the possibility of Earth being the only planet in our galaxy capable of producing and sustaining life.  His conclusion was, if this is so, how humbling.  I feel this.

Yesterday, I ended the day watching a documentary on the car maker Rolls Royce, offering a behind-the-scenes look at this prestige carmaker’s attention to detail and unrivalled craftsmanship, including the bespoke Celestial model – containing  dash and door panels encrusted with hundreds of diamonds and a roof panel  containing hundreds of optical fibres which represent an actual constellation of stars.

One universe is for all, the other for a few.  (Apologies if you own a Rolls Royce but I struggle to get it.)

Erwin McManus suggests Human creativity – our art – produces life when it is good.

If our planet is unique within our galaxy for producing life, so our lives also appear uniquely positioned for this purpose.  Plants produce more of their kind, so to animals, as the dinosaurs before them, but Humans are different.  We look out into space, dreaming one day of travelling to distant stars, and towards this, and life on Earth, we end up create and produce all kinds of things – even Rolls Royces with picnic hampers costing £20,000.

Of the two stories, the one which excites and fascinates me most is the one Brian Cox and Erwin McManus are exploring.   The better story understands how every Human is capable of living their art towards impacting others for the good, is an amazing one the Universe has gifted us.

You may not believe this.  Yet.  Perhaps it’s too fanciful or the kind of thing that happens to people who get to drive Rolls Royces or life is too busy just getting by.

Steven Pressfield confesses: ‘Most of us have two lives.  The life we live, and the unlived life within us.  Between the two stands Resistance.’

Yet, here we are on this dot in the universe, the adventure invites us to identify our art which is good, which creates life.