If ......

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, marvelling at its big pools of water,

its little pools, and the water flowing between the pools.

People would marvel at the bumps on it, and 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 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 that their

lives, their own "roundness", could be

nothing without it. If the Earth

were only a few feet

in diameter