The Holding Center

He bears the whole universe;

He can bear my little heart;

The image of the Invisible

Revealing all God’s heart.

All things cohere

subsist in Him

The Holding Center

Keeper strong.

The universe His worth proclaims:

Christ as reality

its song.

Through His Word

all things have life;

Everything

of Him

to Him;

And in the heavens now

He stands

Lord of Lords

King of Kings.

In Him we live

in Him we move;

In Him we are

have life and breath.

In wisdom great He metes the earth

Apportions each their hill and heath.

This One and I—unified

Mingled and incorporate—

He bears me in His mighty hand—

On Him my hope is set.

The universe in which I live

Is sometimes turbulent with storm

But all I wish to see therein—

His mighty

lovely

lordly form.