Liz Jakimow

Larger than the mountain

My petty problems and disturbances

seek to overwhelm me,

like a mountain that must be climbed,

but seems insurmountable

from my starting point.

Those concerns are meaningless

when faced with a real mountain,

towering over the landscape for millennia,

barely changed by the tiny people

who settled near its base and

built roads on its surface.

Looming larger than the mountain

is the Lord who created it,

to whom majestic, geographical features

are like miniscule, ephemeral specks.

How inconsequential my worries seem,

when faced with such a God.

How unfathomable that this God

should care for those worries too.

Liz Jakimow is a photographer and poet who lives in the beautiful valley of Araluen, in Australia. After losing a loved one, her photos and poems from that initial three-month grieving period were published in A journey with grief: exploring loss through photography and poetry.