Portals of Glory

Right around the corner

Coming to your neighborhood

The rejoicer and the mourner

The evil and the good

All are seeking meaning

All are seeking peace

These fields that they are gleaning

Only tend to decrease

But we are portals of glory 

In unexpected places

Deep and profound stories

Bound up in obscure faces 

We're sinners being transformed

This is more than allegory

The heavy weight is being borne

By these portals of glory

We are the temple

The vessels of light

The profound in the simple

Jars of clay filled with might

Though the world it will hate us

This place of profane territory

They’ll and besmirch and berate us

These the portals of glory

There is light placed within us 

For Jesus is its source

And His radiance rends us

With omnipotent force

What one day we’ll be

When we transcend the transitory

Will be amazing to see

For we are portals of Glory

December 19, 2024

Anthony Foster