If A Child, Why Not A Cosmos?

About the Book

Pondering the immensity of our bond with Earth carries us beyond Faith I-low love a wave apart from the ocean waving? Only in the context of the story of the Universe is Earth intelligible, so whatever love we feel for her extends naturally to the Universe as a whole, and to the magical dynamic conceiving and unfolding it across literally billions of years. The year-by-year blossoming of a human child that so rightly astounds and delights us mirrors nothing less than the blossoming of the very cosmos!

The scientific, necessarily inadequate, nomenclature for the magical dynamic, of course, is evolution, whose presence, power, and stupendous splendor have largely been lost to textbook abstraction and religious contention. How so very sad when the wonder of it is we are not only grounded in this Great Story but called to extend it! Could deeper ancestry, greater dignity, richer identity, loftier destiny be conceived?

Think of the poems and quotations in If A Child, Why Not A Cosmos? as lovesongs to Earth and evolution, hoping to coax from readers lovesongs of their own.

About the Author

Finn spent ten years in the Society of Jesus after graduating from high school in Cincinnati. With degrees in literature and psychology from Chicago’s Loyola University, he taught high school and then became a mental health counselor before relocating to Virginia with his wife in1979. He lives near Fincastle with his family and commutes to nearby Salem where he is a licensed professional counselor.

Among Finn’s writings is the internationally-known poem “Please Hear What I’m Not Saying.” His published works, all of which can be obtained through his website (www.poetrybycharlescfinn.com) or e-mail address (charlesfinn@ntelos.net), include the following:

Circle of Grace: In Praise of Months and Seasons

Natural Highs: An Invitation to Wonder

For the Mystically Inclined

Contemplatively Sweet: Slow-Down Poems to Ponder

Earthtalks: Conjectures on the Spirit Journey

The Elixir of Air: Unguessed Gifts of Addiction

Deep Joy, Steep Challenge: 365 Poems on Parenting

Earth Brother .Jesus: Musings Free of Dogma

Embraced It Will Serve You: Encounters with Death

All of Finn’s writings relate to the spirit journey. His own has been grounded in Catholicism and nourished by Jesuit, Taoist, Native American, Creation-Centered, awl Quaker spiritualities.