Imaginary gas traces
in space (CGI)
Breathtaking are the advances of science,
fact upon fact, day upon day,
theory upon theory,
building, building, building;
information,
and data flooding into the ears, the eyes, the brains,
the banks of computers:
and crying,
‘This is the cosmic reality,
this is where knowledge lies,
here are all the secrets of the universe’ -
seemingly forgetting they are all provisional!
And as space is probed,
the depths of the sea,
and the bowels of the earth
are explored:
as the tiniest particles
are smashed together
or ripped apart
power seems to lie in the gathering
of knowledge.
Pause to ask
‘Do these marvels bring wisdom?’
‘Do they enhance
the beauty of the earth
or the exquisite patterns of the cosmos?’
‘Do they lead us to a better understanding
of the mystery of God’.
They can.
Indeed they can:
but they can also tempt
us mere mortals away,
to seek to disregard those very mysteries
at the heart of the wonder of Creation.
Keep us, dear Lord
alert to wonder;
awed, beneath the shadow
of your overarching wing,
where you gather us
to share in your Wisdom
and rejoice
in your unfathomable and eternal mystery.
