wonder at the heart

of faith and science

I feel myself to be a person of faith,

for the spiritual opens me into insights

that mundane cause-and-effect can’t reach,

I also think myself to be a person of thought,

for understanding what is can slap me in the face

with the real world that doesn’t care what I dream,

I find random change as the great determiner

as fantastic as the God of Genesis making all in a week,

I consider creation as a wonder,

and faith and science can be equal

in their straining to celebrate where we are in the cosmos,

how we got here is a wonder.

by Henry H. Walker

January 31, ’15