Our Father’s Lamp

Is that a Lamp we see ahead
     That casts its light around?
By it we find our eyesight’s fed,
     And with it truth is found.

For as we look along its light,
     More truth we then can see;
From meaningless and stormy night
     We are by light set free. 

Lamp’s beauty we see in each face
     As light shines through each one;
Forever after we see grace
     From Lamp who is God’s Son.

The more we see the more light grows
     As Lamp we see is love,
And in His heart He each one knows–
     Prepares a place above.

Then we see His humility
     Has brought His light to us.
We by Him are from sin set free;
     He shapes our mortal dust–

And when we die His light enfolds
     Each one within His heart,
For His love’s always purest gold
     And to us joy imparts.