The pearl of greatest price

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, November 16, 2008

It is the pearl of greatest price,
this love deep within our souls.
If it manifests itself but once in a lifetime
that would be enough:

But that it explodes in sparkling rays--
a rainbow of light and so many colors--
that becomes the most amazing and life-affirming

of all the joys we know.

This is what makes it all worthwhile;
this is what lights our days and guides us through our nights.

It is in the reflection of that glory
that life’s splendor is most clearly seen.

It is in the magnificently streaming light
of love that we glimpse most clearly
the warmth and fire

at the very heart of Creation.

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,
present ever fresh to us in the sacred kiss of life.

jbs
3/9/01       4/28/02       11/16/08

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