20 October 24 – Sunday 29B (COCU 61B)

COSMIC EMBRACE
(Job 38:1-7, 34-41)
Robotic spacecraft
exploring new horizons
expand what we know.

Submersible craft,
mass-spectrometers, reveal
hidden mysteries.

Every breakthrough
begs more deeply exploring
the world’s foundations.

We try to measure
length, breadth, depth of all that is:
we are confounded.

When distress visits,
dark, all-consuming, it clouds
that cosmic vastness.

Yet in my distress
the mystery we name God
is embracing me.
    Jeff Shrowder, 2024
 
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