Lenten Sonnet XX, 2025

1 John 1:5

Remind me today, Father, of your light:
Light slipping through a dismal cloud curtain;
Starlight radiating on a cool night;
Little pools of light when tulips open.
Help me to remember when you’re obscure,
Hard to see, shrouded in your mystery,
That it may be that my eyesight is poor,
Not that you, Shepherd, are absent from me.
Bring to mind the many times I beheld
Your glimmering glory in the dark cave,
Where so graciously you in love withheld
Your fullness, not to confound, but to save.
Ready me for the Morning Star to rise
When I shall gaze with resurrected eyes.