God's Love Song

In the beginning was the Song.

God sang the Song, and the Song was God.

All things came into being through the Song; nothing exists apart from its music.

Everything alive sings the Song, creating billion-part harmony.

The Song’s sweet melody overwhelms the cacophony of darkness.

 

Priest, prophets, and kings sang the Song, each in their own way.

Often the Song chose unlikely singers to carry it on.

When humans fell silent, rocks, hills, and plains cried out.

All creatures great and small joined the choir.

Heavenly beings added their unending praise.

The planets, the stars—even the Universe itself—sang.

Every voice was unique—but all sang the same Song.

 

Through the years the Song sang on.

But there came a time when it faded to a whisper.

Few people remembered its lyrics.

The Song became the stuff of legend.

 

God so much wanted God’s people to remember the Song,

That long ago in a tiny town called Bethlehem:

Words entered a womb.

Sound became sinews.

Lyrics became ligaments.

F-sharps and B-flats took on flesh and blood.

The Song became a human being!

 

 

Did Mary know??

That as she sang her lullaby to her infant son,

She held God’s Love Song to the world in her arms.

As she pondered the happenings of this holy night in her heart,

Could she see a cross-shaped shadow looming over the manger?

I honestly don’t know.

 

But I think Mary knew,

As only a mother can,

That her son was no ordinary child,

That though his flesh was destined to fade, 

Through him all the Earth would be saved, 

And God’s Love Song would endure forever!