From Darkness to Light

The lawn sports a shawl of fresh dew-diamond dazzle

Flower and fallow unfolds to our gaze

As bird-song and sunshine and zephyr-sigh mingle

Filling our cup with His promise and praise

Where is the darkness that covered the midnight?

Where is the shroud that swathed this tumbled girth?

Its veil is torn by breath-whispers of morning

Up from the skyline Light swaddles the earth

See how the darkness recedes like an ocean

See how its tide slips from shadow to Light?

Such is a heart when our self-will is broken

Like summer’s fair morning after winter’s night

Hope wears the color of gold on the garden

We bear the wonder of Love breathed on dust

See; His compassion is new every morning

Light of the world and in Him we trust

© Janet Martin

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2: 9