“Ask and it shall be given
you, knock and the door shall be opened;
Seek and you shall find”
Matthew VII 7
“Glory to God” as the Angels
sing
To welcome the birth of
their Infant King
The agent of God’s divine
revolution
Who changed the direction of our evolution.
For the Saviour was born not
to keep us in line
But to free our humanity to
seek the Divine
And his words bid us focus
on what lies ahead
And forget the old luggage
that belongs to the dead.
“For to knock ask and seek
is a basic technique
To seek knock and ask is the
scientist’s task
To seek ask and knock is the
truth searcher’s Rock”
And Love is the point of
Creation
As the angels applauded new
light in the night
Their song was an echo of
heaven’s delight
For if God can embody
himself in the human
There’s no limit to
fashioning all kinds of new man.
So angels can praise [in
proportion of course]
All those who can overcome
darkness by force;
By force of the spirit, by
force of the light
by force of the truth that
illumines the night
For to knock as and seek is
a basic technique
To seek knock and ask is the
scientist’s task
To seek ask and knock is the
truth searcher’s Rock
And Love is the heart of
Creation.
For when Francis of
Poverty’s call was enticed
Then Christians evolved a
new vision of Christ.
And angels sang “glory” when
Shakespeare was born
With a mind to create a new
dramatist’s dawn.
And they sang at the birth
of young Beethoven too
Whose music evolved into
something quite new.
So when Darwin was born, they sang with elation
For a soul who could try to
make sense of creation;
Whose mind could discern how
our senses might solve
The question of how all we
know could evolve.
And all evolution of science
and art
Of thinking, inventing – in
mind and n heart –
We owe to the Child of the
first Christmas day
Who changed our direction
and showed us the Way.
Oh, to knock ask and seek is
a basic technique
To seek knock and ask is the
scientist’s task
To ask seek and knock is the
truth searcher’s Rock
And Love is the soul of
Creation.
