The sun is the width
of a human foot.
~ Heraclitus*
Well, ok, then, maybe two
human feet...and my first reaction is to laugh at an old memory! I remember myself as a child
lying on the grass blocking the sun with my foot and feeling powerful. And there you are, Sun, in all your resplendent presence pouring light
upon us brightening, dazzling, blinding, warming, heating, wilting, frying us
and then suddenly we're chilled by a passing cloud!
So much of life is a matter of perspective. Too much of a good thing
followed by too much of a bad thing...and here I am trying to find balance,
harmony, and just the right measure of objectivity. But when I get swept away
in emotion, I can easily lose my perspective and feel overwhelmed. There have
been moments when I was so lost in love I could hardly breathe, some moments
when anger has sent my blood pressure nearly to explosion. And when the
extremes of passion take over, truth is lost.
Help the soul You gave me
Lord of Sun, Moon, and Stars, to find the warming light of You in the darkness,
the cooling shade of You in the heat, the balance between want and need, and,
the wisdom to check the width of the sun every now and then. amen.
*Heraclitus was a
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born to an aristocratic family in Ephesus in
what is now Turkey. He insisted that the "only constant is change"
and most famously that "No man steps into the same river twice."
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