Thoughts by Lake Annecy

There they are vast mountains
Massive,mega,whopping monsters
And here it is the wild edgings of a lake 
Vegetation 
In its parts miniscule, teeny-weeny,
A diminutive of the vast
How?
A small of the big 
Or
Big of the small.
Two complex worlds
Elaborate, tortuous.
Parts impenetrable
The vast and the teeny- weeny
And
Here we are looking on,
some know they know,
we all know a little 
but 
Have we ever as one of a whole known the whole?
Never!
' For now we know in part, but then we will know fully even as we have been fully known.', Corinthians 13:12

When is 'then'?
Who knows us fully?
For me:
GOD'S then is not for me to know. 
My faith says God knows me fully.

Look at this painting by Louis Argusté Lapito ( 1803 - 1874). The scene is of Lake Annacy and people make the scene more vast. Then look at the detail of the people close up.

‘ Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before  children.’ Khalil Gibran

‘ Self – respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.’ Abraham Joshua Heschel.

A beautiful day at a beautiful lake.