Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Praise the Lord in the Dances

Sunrise in mist -
a dance of the nearer skies

Praise the Lord in the dances of the Universe,
Stars and constellations streaming through space;
All revolving to the rhythms of creation,
Wondrous signs of God’s creative grace.
  
Praise the Lord in the dances of our nearer skies,
Aurora and sunscapes set the skies ablaze;
Their dazzling glories are but shadows of the radiance
Of heaven, revealed in those aerial displays.  

Praise the Lord in the dances of the landscape,
Waterfalls, clouds and falling leaves:
Gravity and winds combine with nature’s beauty,
Harmonies of grace when they gently interweave.

Praise the Lord in the dances of the ocean’s depths,
Exquisite fish and creatures rare,
Colourful, colossal and many still unknown to us,
Gliding round rocks and coral thoroughfares.

Praise the Lord in the dances of molecules,
Elements with particles too small to see;
Neutrons and protons, quarks and electrons,
And DNA configured in both you and me.
           
Praise the Lord in the dances of devotion,
Like David with vigour, leaping for the Lord.
Childlike exuberance and deeply moving music,
Free some like him to dance and adore.

Praise the Lord in the dances of the angels,
With saints and elders round the throne of grace,
Singing ‘Holy, holy, holy’, God’s eternal honouring,
A sacred, vibrant theme for the cosmos to embrace. 

Other poems with the theme of Beauty, Science and Faith can be found HERE