Greetings …

If you have been following the weekly readings, you will know that the book of Job has been featured over the last little while.  We haven’t been reflecting on Job during Sunday worship, but I came across this poem as I was reading this week.  It is written as a response to Job 38:1-7, 34-41 and resonated a little with how I have been feeling this past week.

Cosmic Embrace
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 cosmis vastness.

Yet in my distress
   the mystery we name God
   is embracing me.

© Jeff Shrowder 2024

Blessings – Rev  Heather Hon (she/her).