If I were told by behest of God to locate the earth in this vast unkenned universe, could I find it not knowing where in it lied? I would have to travel past trillions of blazing stars and peer within each galaxy to see if this infinitesimal piece of cosmic dust was there.
Billions of galaxies to inspect would be my great task. But if I stood in the center of the cosmos, I’d have to travel to infinity and beyond in every conceivable direction at every degree to discover its whereabouts.
So, in my imagination I flew, into the stellar lamination and watched as the astral colors lit up the heavens themselves. But even in their brightness, no Earth could be found by me!
Soar – did I, into a magnitude of space and high beyond the great vaults of the firmament itself. I traveled wherever my mind would pervade and glided with endless grace through the plane of nothingness so wide and deep, it could encompass sempiternity itself.
Dare I think I could find this place called Earth? Even if I had eternity to search – if I traveled forever in every direction, would I be able to discover its location in this extendless domain of God’s?
With all my effort and eviternity at my disposal, I could not find this place, called Earth. I, who felt worth, who believed I was someone, had failed in this one task. Alas, I thought to myself, could the reason why I failed to detect this minute speck called Earth, be that it was never placed in this universe!?
Oh! I wondered, what if, just what if, there are trillions upon trillions of other universes in creation so large, so gigantic that it would make this universe itself look as though it was only an infinitesimal piece of dust? Then what chance would I ever have to find it?
Then I awake from my mental dream and look all about me to see the trees, the sky, the grass, and the seas, and I realize how lucky I am to be on the very Earth I’ve been looking for in my dreams – but could not find.”
Copyright The Maniscalco Family 1994