47 Palm Sunday
“...it’s as though God, in His infinite wisdom, had given you a boat so that you could sail on the ocean and not drown, and you grow up with this boat and it’s really the only home you know. Then one day you become interested in this thing, which is really no-thing, called God, and you read some navigation charts, and these things as you know are a little complicated and you don’t quite understand it, but you can see the waters are not it and so you think if you could get to the end of the waters, there you would find it. All around you there are people rowing their boats, some this way, some that, and they’re obviously going somewhere, so you think you also will start rowing, and even though it soon becomes apparent that try as you may you’re not getting any closer to it, still you see that others are rowing and some are going faster than you and you think they’re sure to make it, and so you increase your efforts, but still with no success, but you feel that at least you’re making an effort, and you become reconciled to it all, and you tell yourself that even if you don’t get there today, there’s always tomorrow... and then someone comes along and says: can’t you see you’re a victim of illusion? You can row from now until eternity but you’ll never get any closer to the horizon, it’s not in the nature of things; so now listen, why don’t you put down the oars and relax a while, why don’t you lie back a little? And so you’ve rowed and rowed for many a year and you’re just about fed up with it all anyway, so you decide to follow his advice, and as you lean back you open your eyes and there’s this vast emptiness of the sky above you... it always was there of course...”
sky is God!
sky is God!
O don’t you know
that sky is God?
lie down a while
and look up high
put thought away
just see the sky
look up! look up!
O please look up!
O can’t you see
that sky is God?