extravagant

Before me Your light breaks forth
on this city sparkling with spring rain.
Your promises are ensured
in refracted brilliant mist, my rear guard.
I am enthralled that You are here
in the thousand applauding fig leaves,
in the warm wind on my upturned face,
in a word of life from my father
in the laying down of it all.
I delight to discover
Your surprising dwelling place,
Your presence is the call of the wild.
Within your courts You reveal such beauty.
I see a world turned upside down
By the seven tiered waterfall of your love.
I see the battle scrolls plotting revival wave’s courses
I see the freedom coming swiftly,
names and faces removed from four walls.
And what comes through the barrel of the wave
is a bride that knows Your face,
the face she can’t live without gazing upon,
the eyes that evaporate iniquity,
that shake and revive a tired earth to dance
and return a song that is pleasing to Your ear.

Glory Portal - acrylic on canvas

Riverbank - acrylic on canvas

First Love

I am submerged in a glorious river
floating swiftly in opened posture,
arms and hair flung backward
watching for You on the horizon.

I am travelling directly to
Your heart as You welcome me
beyond this world, to eternal landscapes
encrusted with stunning jewels.

Here there is more light than colour,
more flight than sleep,
more fragrance than wind,
more movement than rapids.

I sink beyond turbulent currents
making room for Your authority.
You invite me to read a new script,
a sonnet of ten fold restoration.

You exchange tears for intimacy,

making lovely even charred dreams.

You paint life into to dark corners
Where You call the wild 'closer still'.

In the warm embrace of this
joyful flow I am undone.
And in the dangers of release,
pursued by my first love again.