St Peters RC Church Hamilton

“What do people gain from the efforts they make? I contemplate the task that God gives humanity to labour at. All that He does is apt for its time; but although He has given us an awareness of the passage of time, we can grasp neither the beginning nor the end of what God does.” (Ecclesiastes 3 v 9-11)

Particles of dust

Blowing, billowing, breezing

In invisible air.

“Can the dust praise You or proclaim Your faithfulness?” (Psalm 30 v 9)

Hardly tangible, or

Real, unseen mostly,

Like Your Spirit.

Yet evident when

Sunfused light shines

In dancing sunbeams,

Showing in snatches

Path and purpose.

Glimpsed, then gone,

Rising and sinking

Who knows where

Or even why?

Floating along collectively

Apparently aimlessly, but

Individually each having

Its own notion

For continuous motion.

A separate agenda?

Or is there

Just one only,

God’s master plan

Began ages back,

And moving mysteriously

In His time?

“ ‘Lord, to whom shall we go’?” (John 6 v 68)

So much we

Cannot ever

Make sense of

Lord, nor go

Anywhere for answers.

“You have the message of eternal life, and we believe.” (John 6 v 68)

I suppose You

Determined it such,

Much to be

Believed in trust

This side of

Eternity’s golden gate.

But one day

When we sit

At Your feet

Whiling away time

That is not,

Then we will

Be able to

Ask and understand

All that as yet

Puzzles and perplexes.

There must be

A reason Lord,

For everything, everybody

Under the sun?

We too, alone

Or together, can

Move in power,

The breath of

Your Holy Spirit

Blowing where it

Surely will, when

We silently wait

For Your light

To be illuminating us.

Drawing us forwards

To the Lord Jesus,

You as family.

“Of those who are sleeping in the Land of Dust, many will awaken, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting disgrace. Those who are wise will shine as brightly as the expanse of the heavens, and those who have instructed many in uprightness, as bright as stars for all eternity.” (Daniel 12 v 2, 3)

Lord, may our faith bring us home to You to rejoice in Your company forever, because we have a Saviour. Everything under the sun has meaning we discover when we keep praying. Thank You for Your Spirit, who helps us to make this discovery, which is so very good for our body, soul and spirit. We offer all praise for the meaning You give to life, especially as we come to know and love You through the Lord Jesus. Amen.