O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens...When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established;what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?...O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
from Psalm 8
Breathtaking moments occur when we encounter a sight or a sound or that sweeps us off the feet of reality and immerses us in an awareness of immensity. It may be the breathless moment of joy, or the poignant experience of love's deep glance. It may be the moment that makes us stop still and speechless before beauty that envelopes our senses.
The children of God know the feeling of awe...and we know awe because the same God who established the cosmos and the microcosm formed each one of us. The psalmist speaks the question that my soul utters as I contemplate "majesty"....what am I that you are mindful of me.....a mortal? There can only be one answer to that question...
The same God who can create all from nothing is a relational God whose divine love intersects with ME ... and you....and everyone and everything else that exists.
I invite you to pray with Psalm 8 and dwell in majesty. I also invite you to savor the following poem by R.S. Thomas, Welsh poet (1913-2000). Allow the merciful love of the Son who said "Let me go there" lead you from wherever and however you are to the depths of gratitude.
And God held in his hand
A small globe. Look, he said.
The son looked. Far off,
As through water, he saw
A scorched land of fierce
Colour. The light burned
There; crusted buildings
Cast their shadows: a bright
Serpent, a river
Uncoiled itself, radiant
With slime.
On a bare
Hill a bare tree saddened
The Sky. Many people
Held out their thin arms
To it, as though waiting
For a vanished April
To return to its crossed
Boughs. The son watched
Them. Let me go there, he said.
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