My child,
I have loved you with an awesome
and a mighty love.
Before the foundations of the earth
were laid,
before the singing suns
rose in the dawning of time,
I knew you.
My little child,
you are the most precious of my
possessions.
I love you beyond the height or depth
of your understanding.
My joy and my delight are in you,
and the wonder in your eyes
echoes the ceaseless, ever-renewing
surge of my creativity.
You were made for the Heavens;
to walk unshackled through eternity
and to walk by my side.
Come to me, your Creator,
your sustainer,
your Father.
Step into my kingdom.
Enter now the place I have prepared for you.
Embark upon that royal road
that begins in this life,
and continues beyond eternity!
My little one,
as I have loved you in this shadowed world,
as I have delighted in your presence,
laughed and wept with you,
so will I love you in that place
where shadows are swallowed up in joy!
And there I will gently draw the mist from your eyes,
the veil from your understanding,
and you will grasp in reality
what you now hold in faith.
Child,
here you have given me trust and love
and obedience.
There, I will surround you with my presence
and place in your hands
the Morning Star!
c.2011, Donna Swanson
