I imagine the God who created the cosmos
as a Spirit, eternally young;
full of light, full of love, full of energy
from whose Word every particle spun,
to be shaped and reshaped through existence
with some to emerge into life
at first simple, then complex, then sentient
bringing love and its dark converse, strife.
This same God, out of deepest compassion,
set power and glory aside,
became human , risked wrath and malevolence
to redeem us from sin’s drowning tide.