Not with traces of intelligent design

but with speaking of the Word, ex nihilo

we are called to love God here below

and join God’s banquet, there forever dine.

God makes us, (so says John), to share God’s Being.

Such a destiny! - Who could imagine it?

Such an end! - What created thing could fit?

And such a life! Its goodness infinitely past our seeing.

Jesus, is this very Word addressing all

and those who hear his voice are born again

not of human stock, nor the desire of men

but of God, born in a manger stall.

Give place within the self for God to come

who makes the dead to live, gives hearing to the dumb.

Harold Macdonald