Invisible Ink

A story of love once published in the heavens was smudged
by dirty paw prints of spirits in the air
that had refused to trust through death and beyond

The seers kept looking up to find the plot,
while shamans looked for traces below
Priests fumbled to mediate heaven and earth
in the hope of putting the jigsaw back together,
but it was not yet the appointed time

Prophets were sent to reassure us that the story would be republished on a brand new medium that we could all read with no need of expertise

And so at last God sent the chosen substance from His self,
from which to write his message of love loud and clear

The only universal tissue upon which to encode his declaration was in the womb of a daughter of Nathan living around the lowest place on earth
It would be from there that His clearest version of the story would arise

Using invisible ink the Torah was written on Christ's heart
But with a dash of water it began to appear for all to see
What a dynamic and compelling tale began with the Son of Man!

Extraordinary, as the ink flowed onto other pages
And a group of 70 became combined into a book under 12 chapters

And as with so many books the whole can be found at the centre
And there at the crux of this passionate romance was the same story we'd been living out all along, yet this time with a resolution
For God so loved us all that He gave His very own vicarious life
He surrendered His dream so that it could be ours

And this has been our inheritance, to have Eternal Life
The book has been published and now we read on...
You don't need special expertise, just a little water,
then you will find the story bleed onto you too
And what was invisible will be visible all over you

Then the fire will come and seal it upon your heart so you'll never be estranged from God again