What a mercy to have a horizon—
that faraway line reminding me
while my head is in the clouds
that earth and soil are under my feet
and everything is not sky. The horizon
is horizontal only because of my
smallness. In fact, it is a curve beyond which
my hands cannot reach, my eyes cannot see.
It is a great circle inscribed where the heavens
and the two-dimentional place of my perspective
intersect, a reminder that God is always
more than I know. What a mercy to have a horizon
that hides (for now) what is past the threshhold—a mercy
because the knowing, the sight, might be more than
my easily blinded eyes can bear. A mercy because
if I see too much, I may not have faith enough. Funny, too—
without the horizon that limits knowing
there can be no azimuth,
no arc to give direction, no reference point
from which to measure a navigating angle.
Listen as Wisdom calls out!
“…I was there when he established the heavens,
when he drew the horizon on the oceans.”(Proverbs 8:1,27 NLT)
Azimuth. Cool word
. Yes, I get this. What a mercy, indeed, Monica.
Any word containing the letter z is cool!
i figure we already know more than we’re supposed to, and all we got out of that debacle was death.
More and more, I’m starting to really appreciate being in the position of not knowing.