Small

JJ Heller opens with a complaint about how people tend to shrink God down to fit their expectations — "people wish that you were more like what they wanted you to be," until "they won't have much of you at all in their theology." The image she uses, cardboard cutouts, makes the shrinking almost visual.

Her refusal is direct: "I don't want to make you small, I don't want to fit you in my pocket." Heller admits her own limits honestly too — "I could never fathom you at all" — treating that inability to fully grasp God not as a problem to solve but as an accurate description of the gap between creature and Creator.

God tells Israel in Isaiah 55:8-9 that his thoughts and ways are as far above human ones as the heavens are above the earth, and Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 1:27 that God chose what the world considers foolish to shame what's supposedly wise. Heller's closing line — God using "the least of us to prove the strong aren't really strong at all" — keeps that same pattern of confounding expectation running through the whole song.