I stand and watch as darkness flees
Looking out my window in quiet pleasure
The new morning light fills the earth and sky with delight,
Then the iridescent red on the throat of a hummingbird glows
Zooms past and stops at the feeder on our back porch;
The earth continues to rotate
Night turns into day and back again
Simple things become more profound
As a peaceful calm settles into the Rock Solid Presence within;
The God of Creation
Ruler of all
Stands with arms outstretched
Welcomes all the children Home
Those many reborn by "water and the Spirit"
Kingdom children of the King Most High.
Knowledge that is Life rests within this heart
A humble man who stands and feeds as well
Drinks from the written Words of God read daily and meditated upon
From the Holy Spirit who moved over the earth in the beginning,
Creative power of the Father's will
Expressed infinitely
In greatest artistic delight
Exquisitely more than sublime
Unending pleasure in what He has made
Jealous love for all His own
Zeal that consumes His Son,
Zeal that swallowed up death for all time
And forever conquered darkness
And the "evil presence"
With all powerful, eternal Light!