This gospel reflection is based on Revelation 21:5.
All Things New
Thousands of years of promise Have brought us to this time After millennia of aimless drifting Distancing ourselves from love Turning inward rather than outward We have rejected you and refused Yet now you make all things new
Oft We have moved away from you We have tried to replace you Even at times trying to be you Only to fail and to sin again Only to increase the distance From our lives to you Yet now you make all things new
You have stood by your promise You have been patient and kind You have been giving and forgiving You have protected us from harm You have shown and guided us through Yet we have turned away Yet now you make all things new
You have sent prophets of old To teach and to show the way To warn and to guide us home To correct and to keep us straight Through word and awesome sign With love you have guided us through Yet now you make all things new
We have so often rejected you Left and walked far away from you To try to become God like you Yet in your eternal love and mercy You have sent your only Son To bring us back and lead us home And now you make all things new
You have come to become as us The creator as a humble man To take on our sinful burden To show us the way back to you To bear up all of our sin With mercy and forgiveness And to invite us to follow you home And now you make all things new
Lord Jesus help me to make all things new In all that I say and all that I do Help me stay on the path of your way As I pray and start each day And live my life as you have shown Totally for you