#636: How Small Our Span of Life

The text is by Herman Stuempfle (I have no idea how to pronounce that) who shows up a few times. This text is pretty good, it's just...intense! Like, the relative shortness of our lives is "a flash of light before we sleep to see the sun no more." Etc. On the one hand, I like the space/time/cosmic scope imagery, and on that same hand, I like theology that takes seriously the concept of "God's infinity means there's hope for more than our relatively transient earthly lives." It's just...stark. And intense. Yeah. Also nice faith/hope/love trifecta in the last verse, split up by an extra line so it's not too heavy-handed.