When you, my friend, are standing on this earth
And gazing up into the firmament
Where stretches all of space, what do you see?
A great black blanket stretched o’er all the sky
With many a mystery light somewhere up there?
Or can you see the distances so great
Which stretch the mind almost to breaking point
And make you feel the size you really are?
In the still silence of the spacious sky,
The far-off planets seem almost in reach
Compared to the great distance to the stars.
The crescent moon is closer yet to you,
And yet it took man three whole days to reach
That tiny sphere so very close at hand.
But what you see while gazing up to heights
Which you cannot begin to comprehend
Is but a streak of all the vast expanse
Beyond the knowledge of this human race.
And so, my friend, I hope that you will feel
That greatness, vastness, emptiness of space
Which our Creator made for us so we
Can feel His greatness and His tender love
And humbly bow our heads and worship Him.
–by Daniel Kaufman
