OMNIPRESENCE

I see You, God, radiant in the ocean spray
and in a drift of springtime petals.

Always here and close, in a breeze, in fog,
in the smile of a stranger on a crowded street.
You are here beside us, above us, inside us.
You know every mortal thought thought
in all eternity, hidden doubt and anguish.
You hold our hearts and fondest dreams.
You walk with us, you hear our fears.
You are here. You are here. You are here.

I hear You in the silences
and feel You in the flames.
You thunder in the firefly
And whisper in the windstorm.

You touch me with a baby's hand
and cleanse me in the ever-crashing surf.
You walk with me in Your majestic moonlight.

I know You in rainy neon streets
and in the mirror towers of the city.

You are in the watery eyes of the bag lady
and You sleep on city streets.

I hear You in the crickets of a country night.

You suffer in the ambulance and die daily, and shuffle hardly noticed in the yellowing refuges
of the forgotten old.

Dark dangers terrify.
but I place my hope in Your light.

Disappointments weigh me down
but Your promises lift me up,
up to the everlasting skies.

Raise me in the dawn
and and hold me fast til the setting of the sun.

Insecurity may threaten
but on the wings of Your promises
my spirit rises toward the heavens.

Please, reach down to save me there, my Creator,
my Protector, my only Hope.
Take me into Your eternal peace
for I have been always with you.

Amen

(c) 1985 Donn B. Murphy

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