Musings on the Eternal
written 7/22/08

When creatures of a finite time encounter such a Being

As You that live from Ages past, Who created everything

We have but one response that counts, that is valid in Your sight

To lose our shoes and collapse in awe before Your brilliant light.

Some clench their fist and swear to stand upon their own two feet

But in the end, they’ll know the truth – before the Judgment Seat

Others cry that You are gone, or were never really there

And that man created You instead to fill some instinctual tear.

And there are those who simply want the temporal to stay

Forever as it looks to them, each and every day.

With eyes so blind to grandeur Adam reciprocates

With a choice to stay with Eve again, Our failing demonstrates

A Need for things Eternal – of Grace and Power and Love

Of aspects of Forgiveness – of character from Above

This mortal life we try to live – with just a fleeting breath

Is nothing – nay, nothing at all – without You - only death.

Eternal One