Conversational Prayer-Sonnets and Scriptures

January 19 ~

... we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal ... we are looking all the time not at the visible things, but at the invisible ... we walk by faith, not by sight ... I live by what I believe and not by what I see ...
2Cor.4:18 (NAS,JBP); 5:7 (KJV,Wil)

The Other Dimension

’Tis in the fringes of reality
the surface froth our partial senses scan
- the one percent of things* God lets flesh see -
that men live out their lives. Poor foolish man!
trapped by his arrogance, blind to God’s hand
nor comprehending that man’s deepest sense
(without which he can’t grasp, nor understand
the hidden realm: the ninety-nine percent!)
is faith! - the organ which, when exercised,
becomes the key to opening the Door
to Understanding, where wait Wisdom’s eyes.
Through them - through Thee! - dark’s seen as Light! Far more
of breadth, length, height and depth my dull soul sees
as it abides in Thee - and God doth please!

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TO THE UNKNOWN GOD ... in him we live, and move, and have our being ... I bow my knees before the Father ... that He would grant you .... to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth ... for darkness is as light with thee ... "I am the door ... Abide in me, and I in you"...
Acts 17:23,28 (KJV); Eph.3:14,16,17-18 (NAS); Ps.139:12 (RSV); Jn.10:9, 15:4 (RSV).
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* We have begun to look through the obscuring clouds of gas and dust that veil the center of the Milky Way and found evidence that a massive black hole lies swirling at its heart. We have found immense voids -- regions billions of trillions of miles across, from which no light seems to shine and in which no matter seems to exist. We have determined that our part of the universe is irresistibly sweeping toward some mysterious gravitational source whose location remains unknown ... But perhaps the most tantalizing insight is something we cannot see -- the so-called dark matter. Increasingly observations suggest that galaxies are immersed in huge halos of unseen material. We have no idea what this dark matter is, but theoretically it pervades our every breath, making up perhaps 99 percent of the mass of the universe. Thus everything we can see may be only the froth, the wispy one percent of the real universe ... From an article, New Eyes on the Universe, by astronomer Bradford A. Smith, National Geographic, January, 1994.

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