The Near

Now breaks dawn’s triumph through dark deep

An ark of hope and grace

Unfettered from the Giver’s keep

To erring human-race

Time’s straight and narrow with the broad

Synchronize, called Today

But only one road leads to God

Oh, pray we find its way

Now, up the blue-sky ladder climbs

Morning-tide’s patriarch

Ah list, where heaven’s belfry chimes

And melts away the dark

Before the gaze of humankind

Mercy favors time's sod

And prays for straying feet to find

The way that leads to God

Now is the day of reckoning

Now is the day of grace

How long before hope’s beckoning

Becomes the Savior’s face?

No one can tell, but Now and Here

Are like an awesome Gate

Ah pray we realize The Near

Before it is too late

© Janet Martin

 For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.

2 Cor.6:2