Believing ca 2/1991

In this life, there are two things we need:
A reason to live,
And something worth dying for.
God answers both of these.

For in Christ, our living is abundant.
He is pleased to give us Himself, first,
And then fellowship with all those who are kindred spirit to us;
Who value the imperishable inheritance of love
As far more precious than the material we leave behind.

And in Christ, our dying is our dancing day
It is like the night before the wedding:
We sleep if only to hasten the dawn of our joy--
To see Him face to face!
To take the hand of the Lord of the Dance, and promenade down the line
Reunited at last with all our kindred; Lover, and Beloved
At the wedding of the Lamb.
We will sit at the banqueting table
We will sup
And share the cup

Fear not!
Having thought life was done, we find it has just been won
Has barely begun

And this inheritance of love,
Imperishable:
More precious than anything we could hold
It is the crown He gives us
It shines in the faces of all our beloved, gathered in His presence
Both here on earth, and there, in that great cloud of witnesses,
And finally, in His over-arching and eternal kingdom

The common ground
Uniting the reason to live
And the thing worth dying for