Creation - and the Spirit of God danced over the face of the waters . . . (Genesis 1:2)
The Angels dance
at my feet
Saith the Lord;
These great Mighty Spirits
Like wafts of wind
from the mountain-tops,
sparkle across the universe near my feet
In rainbowchequered colours of love,
hymn, worship, honour, praise
In an ecstasy of love and bliss
and pouring out of spirit before me,
enfolding me, enwrapping me,
turning me, enchanting me
Casting handfuls of stars throughout eternity and
The misty darkness and the radiating lightfulness
of the universe in a cascade of goldenshower
and praise, mighty beings in ecstasy of
lovingprayer and praise and mindfulworship
of love and the song and hymn
of its beauty and enchantingmysteriousness
is joyous in my sight,
Saith the Lord.
My mystics bow and dance, and sing, and hum,
and turn in chiffonsilks of golden prayer and praise
before me, and anchoresses and anchorites
and writers and gospel-authors and musicians
and pray-ers and theologians and Mass-
celebrators and carpenters and cobblers and
jugglers and nurses and doctors and
poets and orchestra-players and barrow-owners
and orangesellers and veterinarians
dance before my feet,
Saith the Lord.
And as my Mighty Lord says this to me
In splendour and wonder and delight and love and
happiness I see the whole universe begin to
gyrate and turn, and twist, and revolve in
dark and showerstarred light.
And I whirl before the place of my Lord,
Softly; softly; all falls quiet
And the universe settles
And the beings silence
And I dance; dance; oh, I dance and
I sing before my Lord.
And He smiles,
face of joy,
as I dance in spirit and
the love of God twists and turns in mighty
songs of light and vapours of love and
beauty of soul.
God the Almighty is One.
And at the end
He - my mighty Lord -
turns His Hands,
and begins to dance,
The dance of His creation.
And, as He dances
We - his created -
rejoice at the beauty, and the joy
and the innocence of it all -
The innocence of my Lord.
The Angels dance
before my feet -
Saith the Lord.
Catherine Nicolette Whittle
