This is a song that Cheryl wrote over the course of several months. She started writing it in Maine November 2007, wrote the first verse December 2007, and continued to work on it in February 2008 in Minnesota, and then finished it at home. Here is a live version of Pointing at the Sun on YouTube.
When Cheryl was in grade school, the diagram of an atom looked a lot like the solar system. This got her wondering if perhaps an atom might be a solar system, and perhaps our solar system is an atom in some huge universe. (I remember having the same theory myself when I was a kid.)
As suggested by the title, the song mentions how plants always keep turning to point to the sun. Cheryl has always been fascinated by the sun.
- Pointing at the Sun
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- Speeding, sailing, spinning through the firmament
- And the firmament is speeding somewhere too
- So beautiful the mystery, we gaze aloft in wonder
- At all the pieces we can see, at all the stars we’re under
- Chorus:
- And here on earth we praise what God has done
- Every church proclaims the only one
- Ants and elephants have lives to run
- And all the plants are pointing at the sun
- Who and what and why and where and how and when
- I don’t have a whisper of a clue
- Do fishes ever look beyond the tank they’re in
- And somehow contemplate creation too?
- I don’t expect to understand, the question’s so beyond us
- The mystery is majesty, humbling and wondrous
- Repeat chorus
- If atoms zip around too fast for us too see
- If somewhere we are zipping that way too
- Then some colossal jr. high school nerd might be
- Adding one to one and getting two
- Through eyes the size of galaxies, blinking once an eon
- He’s pondering a particle big enough to be on
- Repeat chorus
- (P) April 04, 2008
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- ACF Music Group
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