Risky Business

 "Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me! "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?…Job 38: 3-5

This looking is risky business

For if we look we know

Such awesomeness can be no fluke

Of nature ebb and flow

And such engrossing detail

Of sky or land or sea

Climaxes, wild and wonderful

Studied philosophy

Looking is risky business

The order of it all

Whether of light or darkness

Amazes one and all

For, if we dare look closely

Then oh, we must admit

The only explanation

Is God, who ordained it

© Janet Martin

‘Looking is risky business’, remarks Annie Dillard in the book Pilgrim at Tinker Lake