By these three days all the world is called to attention. Everything that is and ever was and ever will be, the macro and the micro, the galaxies beyond number and the microbes beyond notice -- everything is mysteriously entangled with what happened, with what happens, in these days. This is the axis mundi, the center upon which the cosmos turns. - Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Death on a Friday Afternoon
I guess my song isn't so original as I thought. It has clearly been influenced by what I have read previously.
As wonderful and awesome a place as we keep discovering the universe to be, it is still less awesome than this!
I find that my conception of eternity expands a bit on Fr. Neuhaus', though. Imagine a time, one moment that captures every moment, all moments and all places present simultaneously, the creation the fall from grace the great flood the testing of Abraham Joseph in Egypt the great exodus the kingdom of Israel David the Babylonian every prophet every birth each heartbreak every triumph every death the manger the temple Jesus' ministry the First Supper the cross the empty tomb Emmaus Thomas blind Saul/Paul the martyrs and saints all in God for all eternity
Words cannot adequately convey the concept, nor can the finite mind fully grasp it.
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