Truth and Love

May we in holy truth from You delight,
For promise from You is a dream come true,
Becoming real as dawn dispels our night
And beauty of Your truth comes into view.

For holy truth is love You have for us
That penetrates our flesh and wakes our hearts
To cast away old Eden with its lusts–
Make Eden new intended from the start.

Your love and truth shine forth from manger low
Where Mary and her Joseph keep their watch
O’er Babe descended to us here below
To rescue us who are the Devil’s catch.

For Devil cannot stand both truth and love
That raises Eden new to heav’n above.