New Life

New Life

Steve Loggins

8/8/11

Before the violent push that made the world expand and grow,

A soft wet world of comfort reigned, a smaller world to know.

New Life begins with pain and force for those who make it so,

Yet vast rewards of happiness come, arriving to bestow

A joy in Life one cannot see without a new Life’s birth,

A baby child, an infant born, a reminder of our worth.

A laughing face, a gurgling sound, exploring eyes that follow all,

A brand new world of brightness, where everything is tall,

A hungry mouth, a hungry mind, learning day by day,

Absorbing all the world around, in earnest and in play.

Learning to communicate, to love, to laugh, to cry,

It seems a shame that man is born to, one day, only die.

Yet God has made it such a world, that we can be born again,

Within a spiritual rebirth lies: the key to The Eternal Plan.

Death and Life are intertwined within the mortal veil,

A Destiny awaits us all – be it Heaven or a devil’s Hell.

To live is good, to die is bad – we learn these things below

The paradox of Spirit Life reverses what we know.

We must die to truly Live, die to what we are

And Live again in a brighter world, to grow beyond the bar

Of what this mortal life can bring, limits we must bear,

But when we die to self we get a Life where truly there’s no fear.

God make it so for all who see a new Life born on earth,

To get a second Life from You, through Christ a second birth.