Audacious grace: to give without receiving,
to give expecting nothing in return
And through this grace, this moment still believing,
that love is something we can never earn.
This grace extends beyond our expectation,
for not a one is found outside its span,
this tender care, this steadfast loving kindness
has held the cosmos since all time began.
No word or action, prayer or contemplation
can lift us us from this earth to heaven’s height,
nor can the supernova’s startling brilliance
compete with God’s eternal, ceaseless light.
In faith we sing beyond imagination,
beyond the limits of our common sense.
We frame a vision out of time’s contention,
yet know its truth within our present tense.
Andrew E. Pratt (born 1948)
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