God, who beckons,
“Child, draw near…”;
God, who longs
To bend His ear
To hear the
Fretful heart that cries,
That He might calm
The hopeless life.
God who reckons
Death as life;
God who summons
You and I
Has breathed a hope,
Has filled a cup
With the simplest summons…

“Come!”

A.D.W. 2009