God and Nature Spring 2019
Holy Sonnet XI
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By Joel Armstrong
They say to walk across the universe
would take at least six billion billion years.
And if sometimes I tarried to immerse
myself in cloudy nebulae, to veer
off course to visit just one galaxy
of countless billions stretching throughout space,
so many lifetimes more I’d need to be
to revel in the cosmos’ vast embrace.
Then I heard You: “Am I not even more
unlimited and full of mystery?
Forever’s not sufficient to explore
My Love, My Life, My Light conclusively.”
Yet will I try, throughout unbounded time,
to know and savor all of God sublime.
Joel Armstrong is an editor at Kregel Publications in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His poetry will appear in SUFI (Summer 2019), and he has published literary criticism in Clues: a Journal of Detection and The Hemingway Review. Find out more about his fiction projects and blog at joeljarmstrong.com.
They say to walk across the universe
would take at least six billion billion years.
And if sometimes I tarried to immerse
myself in cloudy nebulae, to veer
off course to visit just one galaxy
of countless billions stretching throughout space,
so many lifetimes more I’d need to be
to revel in the cosmos’ vast embrace.
Then I heard You: “Am I not even more
unlimited and full of mystery?
Forever’s not sufficient to explore
My Love, My Life, My Light conclusively.”
Yet will I try, throughout unbounded time,
to know and savor all of God sublime.
Joel Armstrong is an editor at Kregel Publications in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His poetry will appear in SUFI (Summer 2019), and he has published literary criticism in Clues: a Journal of Detection and The Hemingway Review. Find out more about his fiction projects and blog at joeljarmstrong.com.