Shadowless

Kathryn Mulderink

by Kathryn Mulderink

The utter Utterance of Adonai from all eternity
Desired to utter His Word to earth in profound obscurity.
Down through long ages of prophet and king, He tended vine and shoot,
In the fullness of time preparing a womb to bear such glorious Fruit.

Her soul like sun-splashed crystal in the shadowless noon of day,
Her eyes ever on her Master’s hand, her feet ever in His way.
Her docile heart and God’s own love beat always as if one;
Such a living flame alone could bear the heartbeat of the Son.

The Most High sent His messenger to this humble Nazarene;
All of Heaven held its breath, looking down upon the scene:
From the house and line of David, a maiden of unprecedented grace
By her resolute, valiant, radical “yes” gave to her God a face.