The Love of God

[siliconsloth]

A friend sent me this:

Valleys Fill First

Down in the valley,
That I'm walking through
It feels like forever
Since I've been close to you...
My friends up above me
They don't understand why
I struggle like I do.
My shadow's my only companion,
And at night he leaves too...

Down in the valley
Dying of thirst
Down in the valley,
It seems I'm at my worst.
But my consolation
Is that You baptize this earth
Down in the valley
Valleys fill first.

Down in this wasteland
I miss the mountaintop view
But down in this valley
I'm surrounded by You...
Though I'm not here by my will
It's where Your view is most clear
So I'll stay in this valley
If it takes forty years...

Down in the valley
Dying of thirst
Down in the valley,
It seems I'm at my worst.
But my consolation
Is that You baptize this earth
Down in the valley
Valleys fill first.

Its like that long Saturday
Between Your death and the Rising Day
When no one wrote a word
Wondering "Is the end?"
But You were down in the world
Saving those who fell
And bringing them to the mountains again.

When You pour out Your Waters, valleys fill first...