The Radiance of Love

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, March 16, 2008

It is the pearl of great price,
this love deep within our souls,
and if it manifests itself but once in the lifetime
of this world,
that would be enough.

But when it explodes in sparkling rays
In our own time and place, within our very own days:
a rainbow of light and myriad colors--
this is the most amazing and life-affirming joy,
the sacred radiance of love that makes it all worthwhile.

It is this radiance which lights our days and guides us through the night.
In the refraction and reflection of that glory
life’s splendor is most clearly seen.
In the magnificent splendor of that light
we glimpse most clearly the fire at the heart of Creation.

In fidelity to our history and our being
we set deep, true roots within the Earth;
this is no dead weight of binding,
but the glorious connection from which
life’s deepest meanings grow.

In celebration of this glorious transformation
our branches reach out, tentatively at first,
to touch the ever-so-soft tendrils of budding.
We greet new lives, new insights, new loves,
presenting themselves ever-new to us in the sacred kiss of life.

jbs
3/9/01 - 4/28/02 - 3/16/08

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