Heidi Viars

No cause necessary.
Nothing was before.
No dirt needed to build.
No help from angels required.

I wonder if You said,
“Watch this. Stand back and sing
While we show you love’s first seed.
Shout for joy all you heavenly beings,
While we knit together the place
Which will receive our wonder –
This miracle of love.”

They began to sing,
Lauded Your force of Love,
“Encore,” they clapped,
Watched as You slammed
The drum of Heaven with one loud
Bang and galaxies flung
Into the vastness of nothing,
And fish swam
And birds flew
And sheep bleated
And bees buzzed

No cause needed.
Only Reason.

Love.

I wonder if you told them,
“Watch this. Stand back and sing
When Love’s seed takes hold
in the heart, in our very likeness.
Shout for joy all you heavenly beings,
When that which we knit together
Will receive the wonder,
This miracle of redemption –
Christ’s love.

The Reason for all causes.”

And they sang.

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
Romans 11:36

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.  And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:16-17

(Poetry and Picture, Heidi Viars, 2023
Inspired by Martin Schleske, Werk/Zeuge, January 10th)