Sunset


When you design a sunset with colors silvr’y grey
Reflected in the ocean along a beach’s way,
The sky and sea together blend colors that amaze,
The senses of beholders are caught in awesome gaze.

As darkness moves in closer to take the reins of night.
Your brush becomes more vivid in its strokes of fading light.
And in the vast sky landscape are mountains in the clouds,
Valleys, lakes and plains appear before the shadow shrouds.

Living by the seaside watching each day’s end
Stirs within our being the desire to comprehend.
The message You are sending through creation we can see
Belongs to those who love You and put their trust in Thee.

“Though every day is different, there is One Who stays the same,
The Holy One of Israel and Jesus is His name.”

When time moves toward our sunset and we’re drawn to close of day,
Our Savior stands there waiting to carry us away
To a ‘specially prepared place wherein our spirits rest,
Where God is Host of Heaven and we shall be his guest.

And time will be suspended as we have known before,
There’ll be no sunrise-sunset or closing of day’s door.
He will be our daylight throughout all space and time.
No night will ever darken, no ev’ning bell will chime.


And we won’t miss the sunsets He spread across our sky,
For we shall be with Jesus and never, never die.


Alice Scott January 19, 1984