Let your heart sing

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Isaiah 65: 17-18 (NIVUK)

17 ‘See, I will create
    new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
    nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice for ever
    in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
    and its people a joy.

There are moments when my attention is held by the humble hawthorn flower.
There are moments when the sunset hues burst brilliantly across the sky.
There are moments when a thrush’s song is more tuneful than any operatic soprano.

There are moments when 
    hush falls, 
    the river flows, 
    the trees shiver and 
    beauty glows.

There is more, so much more, beauty from God.
He has more, so much more, life to bestow.
This world dimly shows what the new world will be.
Listen in, notice well and let your heart sing.

The bee bumbling round a flower in the wood,
The curlew’s burbling song sung on the wing.
The woodpecker’s flight, with its up and down path.
The lambs in the field running and leaping.

There is more, so much more, beauty from God.
He has more, so much more, life to bestow.
This world dimly shows what the new world will be.
Listen in, notice well and let your heart sing.

For His beauty is there when forgiveness is shown,
It is there as kindness opens love like a jewel.
When seeds are new planted, for the promise to come
Of a harvest to feed the hungry ones.
 
There is more, so much more, beauty from God.
He has more, so much more, life to bestow.
This world dimly shows what the new world will be.
Listen in, notice well and let your heart sing.

The new earth to come will echo the old,
Like a Fabergé jewel to the humble hen’s egg.
The world we will see has the feeling of home,
But disease will be gone in all of its forms.

Disease and dying, hate, greed and lust,
Will be out of the picture, excluded from dust,
And our re-creation has already come, 
Through the Spirit inside us who has brought us all home. 

There is more, so much more, beauty from God.
He has more, so much more, life to bestow.
This new world in our eyes will bring us full hope,
Bring us joy, bring us love as it is brought to its birth. 

Prayer:

God of beauty,
Help us to place our hope in You
And pray for Your Kingdom to come to earth this day. Amen