As a Child I Would Gaze

As a child I would gaze,
behold the heavens in a blaze
of light and truth
understood only by youth,
that God alone can guide the paths
of wandering stars. While a fool laughs,
imagining that this heavenly dance
came of itself and quite by chance.

When men of faith beheld the stars
Mercury, Venus and even Mars
they saw God’s hand unfold his plan
to guide the faltering steps of man.
For the stars guide not our course
or mark our fate by unseen force.
What gravity sets the worlds aspin
cannot touch the world within.

Look up now in the night
and behold with human sight
The divine tapestry
woven in heaven’s loom for thee.
Hear the music of the spheres
never heard by human ears.
Take it in with all thy being.
Become again a child, in seeing.