Light at last!
__The darkness has past
__and the day has dawned
__in splendor!
Thank You God
__that You spoke the word
__and there was light!
Death, doubt, destruction, despair—
__the ways and wages of sin—
__all these, and more,
__belong to the kingdom of darkness.
But I don’t.
Far too many years I stumbled about
__in the land of perpetual night
__before the Sun of righteousness arose within.
How refreshing, how warm, how beautiful
__was the Light
__when it beamed
__upon my cold, ignorant, rebellious heart!
How glad I was—to see!
Now I have been lately floundering
__along paths—old paths—
__outside the pale of light.
Thank You Lord
__for reawakening me to my sin,
__for reminding me of warmth and gladness
__left behind.
Thank You for returning this son of Light
__to the Source of light.
__Keep me from straying Lord,
__________I ask, for Christ’s sake,
________________Amen