Glory full

This is better.

In purple and peach sunsets
there is a glory full of heaven

In a child’s conversation about the taste of ice cream
there is a glory full of heaven

In the silence of sharing an emotion far beyond earthly words
there is a glory full of heaven

May our souls always be open to the hidden glory
O God
of life lived fully
our senses alive to the tangible touch
of what sends our souls
beyond this world
knocking on the door of somewhere else

Yet forgive our eyes for ignoring
those who lives are so bound up
with poverty or depression
that there is no living to be done
no glory to find
buried so deep it is out of touch

Forgive our faith for imagining
this glory cannot be shared
cannot be opened up in others
through compassion and kindness
support and company towards folk
pulling away the brokenness
and setting free all that still lives

May our living reveal the light
that is filled with hope
of what is possible
and longs to be made real
transfigured and renewed
not as some flame glowing in the dark
but the light in which to see each other anew

Hear us
God of light
and God of glory