At first it seemed somewhat absurd

This holy seed God calls His Word

I'd read it till the break of dawn

And think on where my world went wrong

The answers came and went like snow

Accumulating so I'd know

The knowledge of each pure-white drift

To-ward life's wholly perfect gift

It humbled me to read such wisdom

Unlike my old school catechism

Where God was King and Mary Queen

And Jesus just a child to wean

Or almost dead nailed to a cross

So we could stare and mourn His loss

A single man who bore His fate

For daring to transcend man's hate

Yet as my heart awoke and saw

That God and heaven filled my core

A new dimension housed my soul

God's one and only perfect goal

Where tears and sorrow have no place

To cultivate a saddened face

Where darkness loses to the light

And where there is no fear or night

I fell and died within God's Spirit

To never more reject and fear it

For from then on my heart was His

To serve and praise the way He is

To share my faith with all who need

To understand God's Holy seed

Whereby the truth wins out at last

When Jesus comes back to His past

To bring true justice to the nations

To end the need for blood libations

To rule and make anew the Earth

To keep His promise of rebirth

And so I trust this quest so bold

To comfort me as I grow old

To teach me how to love and give

And die to self so I can live

Forever in heaven

John Christopher

OCT 2006