All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
The discovery of the 10th planet this week reminded me of a favorite hymn and that indeed there is so much more to be revealed to us in life. The trick, is to be open to these discoveries remembering the lesson of the once flat world.
George Rawson (1807-1889) wrote this hymn in the 1850s
based on the final words Pastor John Robinson gave to the Pilgrims
before they journeyed to the New World.
It may be sung to the following familiar hymn tunes:
St. Anne by William Croft (1678-1727)
Forest Green by Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958)
Ellacombe adapted by William Henry Monk (1823-1889)
We Limit Not the Truth of God
We limit not the truth of God to our poor reach of mind --
By notions of our day and sect -- crude partial and confined
No, let a new and better hope within our hearts be stirred
For God hath yet more light and truth to break forth from the Word.
Who dares to bind to one's own sense the oracles of heaven
For all the nations, tongues, and climes and all the ages given?
That universe, how much unknown! that ocean unexplored
For God hath yet more light and truth to break forth from the Word.
Eternal God, Incarnate Word, Spirit of flame and dove,
enlarge expand all living souls to comprehend your love;
and help us all to seek your will with wiser powers conferred
O God, grant yet more light and truth to break forth from the Word.
Love,
Suz
