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So in thinking, I do think
a lot about land and place

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and how we're connected
to where we live.

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This next one thinks about
that in a really big sense.

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I think that can
extend all the way out

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into the universe beyond us.

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So that's where we're
going in this one.

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So this is Sermon
on the Heavens.

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If you let it, the moon will
tell you your smallness.

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Fragile creature
on a tilted planet

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facing the open darkness,
while the sun burns on

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beyond your sight.

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We have so long
now denied that we

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think we are the center, the
Copernican sun firmly anchored

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in the sky we swing through.

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But I write to you as one
who knows her own heart.

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So I say, blessed
is the wild distance

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of the night, the gauzy
light of nebulas reaching us

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long after they're gone.

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Blessed are the asteroids, those
fragments of the beginning,

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which we did not create.

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Blessed the spacecraft that goes
to bring a piece back to us,

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the origin of oceans
inscribed in its dust.

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Blessed to those machines that
go without thought of return,

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the glimpses they send back
of worlds we thought we knew.

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Opalescent whorls of
storms churn on Jupiter.

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Liquid pools deep beneath
the South Pole of Mars.

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Faintest sunlight kindles
Pluto's peaks of ice

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bright as sacred flame.

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Blessed all the
universe beyond us,

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and we who hunger and
thirst to know it,

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shadowed on earth, calculating
the trajectories of light.

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