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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