Would You Be Astonished?

June 6, 1994

``Write the vision, and make it plain upon the tables, that he may run that readeth it.'' Habakkuk 2:2

Robbed of silences, you lift your eyes from docu-drama, infotainment; now

you search the stillness of the printed page.

Testing early the worth of words, you

savor

the taste of metaphor, learn to envision

a noiseless force across this stuttering

age. . . .

Would you be astonished if you found

God within the shadow of the symbols?