A Foggy Night

I went to Gasworks tonight - a standard favorite of mine and my friend group.  When we reached the park, the air was hushed, enveloped in a blanket of cloud - the fog created some sort of protective dome around the park. This is our space, if only for tonight.

On top of the hill, we looked over Lake Union to the city scape.  Normally, you could see downtown Seattle in all its glory, with the Space Needle perfectly perked off to the right.  Tonight, only a few of the lower lights shone over the black water.  Tonight, the world was minimized. 

We could not see the stars in the sky.  It normally  amazes and overwhelmes me as I look into the starry night.  It almost frightens me.  Tonight, it wasn't there.  Tonight, the world was minimized.

I had less to focus on, less to study, less to see.  My vision was brought down to this small bubble enveloped in a cloud.  This is my mind.

I had been begging for God to clear up my mind; to make these foggy ideas clear.  And yet, I now see what a blessing it is for my understanding to be narrowed.  I now see how much I have been protected through all of this.  I now see how much more my head could be swimming - how much more the tops could be turning - if I saw everything.

The foggy night can still contain truth; but a truth that my weak human mind can actually grasp.