I Love You First

Of humanity's many members, of smoky mountains standing in the clouds, of the heavens You sprinkled with an infinity of stars, and valleys of the goodness of crops and the moonlit magnolia trees, oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams came to life from You. Of the joy of birds at the feeder, I love You first. My Jesus, my Christ, the bats whoosh out of their caves at twilight in their hunting of insects, my grandchildren play on summer's lawns with buttercups dotting the expanse, whilst autumn stirs in his slumber, as the days age more for me, I love You first. You're my morning star, my evening comfort, I adore You most sweetly, You came for me when others didn't, to rescue me from the hurt and the mourning for the earth and her people, her animals, as hatred, as wars, as pollution mars her glorious face, I love You first. You, Dearest Redeemer, Deliverer, sent some of Your angels to watch over us- in frosted nights, and in spring's awaited rebirth. Truest One, my heart in reverence to You, I love You, always first. ~