Zion Laughs

            Zion Laughs            8/25/2000

I survey the panorama in all its scale and catch my breath:
You are God
You have created all
Nothing exists apart from You
What could escape You?
We hide under this very thin layer of dust,
Our presence given away by the merest breathing..

And when that veil is removed
And Your very presence is revealed
There
Is the fear of the Lord.

As, and though You slay me, yet will I trust You.
We fall at Your feet and our crowns roll away.
He said to me,
Do not fear.

It is written that Zion laughed at her enemies
I heard her!
She laughed until she was helpless to get up,
Heedless of danger and safe in the arms of her kinsman
And we laughed with her
Overtaken with the sobbing of the rescued.