EDEN REMEMBERED

Once a millennium,

with the suddenness of pearling on snowfields,

there steals into our midst,

a creature truly rare.

A tiny fragile fawn of a child

so lovely she trembles,

so shy she runs from falling leaves,

so filled with wonder she evokes the Divine.

Such a creature is, I am certain, a gift from God;

a reminder that despite Cain and Babel,

Gomorra and the Great Flood,

He loves us, still.

Desperately,

and with grace.