Blog Action Day

When I signed up to participate in Blog Action Day, I figured I'd have trouble narrowing down my topics and choosing just one. Instead, I have the opposite problem. I can't seem to think of a simple, eloquent way to say what I want to say. Rather than continuing to stare at the flashing cursor, I think I'll post a verse of sorts that I copied down years and years ago, which still rings true:

If the earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it, marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps on it, the holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball, and at the creatures in the water. The people would declare it precious because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder ever known, and people would come to behold it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty, and to wonder how it could be. People would love it, and defend it with their lives, because they would somehow know that their lives, their own roundness, could be nothing without it. If the earth were only a few feet in diameter.