Your love is sweeter than the honey dripping upon the lover’s tongue, Sweeter than wine that wakens the palate to new delight. Your love is aroma and taste penetrating the heart. It is the roof growing higher, And foundation of my world, Glimpsing heaven and begging it near. Your love is sweeter than my life. … Continue reading
I Am
I Am Your grandeur overwhelms me. You lavish Your splendor, Even on the ordinary, Like grass upon the meadow, And tears welling from the heart. Where can I look that You are not? Even the fallow field, Awaits another day, As a virgin in repose, Seeing, in needful desire, A time of promise and plenty. … Continue reading
The Least and the Last,
May I, the least and the last, Who labor in Your vineyard, None the less, bear fruit, One hundred fold. I dare such dreams, And bear such hope, For though, the meanest, And the smallest, Saints and angels attend me, Together, we labor for Your glory. Some know You explicitly, While others simply wonder at … Continue reading
Out of Darkness
I AM WHO AM, God beyond my grasp, Outside of Time and Space, How am I to know You? Calling with the cry of a Babe, You reveal Yourself, To a people in darkness That we may behold You. You bring Light to my blindness. I see in this Holy Infant, “The Father and I … Continue reading
