Wednesday, March 16, 2016

In All Directions.

We've been looking at the sky for a long time,
You and I and mankind.
Can't seem to find the end of it.
We've been going about in boats for a long time,
Place to place, stream to stream, continent to continent.
We've also been looking into that water.
We look.
We look at everything.
We're pretty good at it, pretty clever, we've seen some things.
But we really haven't seen it all.
We've been looking into microscopes for a bit now.
We keep making them more powerful, like our telescopes.
One in, one out,
Both ends of insight keep stretching.
The further we look, the more we discover.
In all directions.
We've been looking at god for quite a while.
What are we looking for?
Do we hope to have a succinct picture of infinity?
What tools do we have to look for, or look at god?
No Ninas, no Pintas, no Hubbles, no CERN for this discernment.
We've been looking at our own hearts, probably not long enough.
It's dark in there and hard to figure out what's going on.  
No compass, No charts, No predictable behaviors.
But we look.
We keep looking.
Whatever made up the sky and the ocean and the quarks made up our hearts.
Whatever gave us the capacity to hear and see and feel also gave us the desire to use those tools.
To look.
We were in wonder when we find the New World and the indivisible Atom.  
But the search didn't stop.
Someday we will find the end of the sky.
The bottom of the ocean.
The finest particle.
The solution to our own hearts.
But we will never know the end of God or his love for us.

Isaiah 40

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