Everything We Need...

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
 even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.
Psalm 139:9-12

Hope lights earth’s sky-wide wick

And woos the night away

Where dawn cuts darkness to the quick

And so begins Today

Today is always new

An ‘all together’ race

Of people privy only to

A moment-metered grace

Grace that does not withhold

Its vowed sufficiency

But overflows an ancient mold

With love's kind clemency

Clemency from a throne

Of command unsurpassed

Where nothing is new or Unknown

In time’s communal cast

…cast with uttermost care

To a most careless breed

Forgetful to the point of prayer

Too oft by fear and greed

Greed for what is not ours

Fear’s lack of gratitude

While heaven, like a garden, flow’rs

With God’s Mercy renewed

Renewed for mankind’s hope

He lights earth’s sky-wide wick

Where ev’rything we need to cope

Cuts Darkness to the quick

© Janet Martin

  Again Jesus spoke to them, saying,  

“I am the light of the world. 

Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, 

but will have the light of life.”

 John 8:12