As in any relationship, two people who are close and comfortable with each other, can just enjoy being together. So too with God and us.
To glory in Your great name O Lord,
Is all I ever wish to do.
To spend time communing sweet,
Focussed on naught but You.
In latter days I ken Your pleasure,
How fine to loiter near Thee,
The value of that vine’d connect,
Renewed by sacred energy.
That I had owned this truth in youth,
And not wasted long years;
But past is past and in Your hands:
Redeem my tears and fears.
You look after the birds of the air:
Can I find that simple trust?
To put You first in everything,
And become the man I must?
To wait in pregnant pause-praise,
Absorbing smiling silence,
That nourishing grace of Yours,
Revivifying every sense.
Yes, god-time is good for you!
Recharging one’s life battery,
To better go forth in love-service,
Suffused with blest reverie.
To share that deepset smiling look,
No narcissistic grimacing,
But warmest peace mellowness,
My heart safe in Your keeping.
Prayer value is a credence thing,
To see beyond time wasting.
To glory in Your great name O Lord,
Amounts to eternity tasting.