Effluence Of Love

Creation is the effluence
Of the loving heart of God;
Authenticated in symbol and type,
Through His creative hand;
On the infinitely great,
And the immeasurably small;
On the near, and the far off;
With but one inscription:
God is love.
As in nature, so in providence:
Origination, support, and direction,
Are the works and heralds
Of that same majestic love.
A love emblazoned in light,
Across the evening sky;
Engraved in the smallest stone;
And silently wispered
Through every crocus,
Working its way upward
Through the winter's snow.
"Praise Him for His mighty acts:
Praise Him according to
His excellent greatness .......
Let everything that hath breath
Praise the Lord."
For His love and mercy
Endureth forever.