From a mountain hilltop I can see God

From a mountain hilltop I can see God.

I sit and pray as a vision appears.  It is a man who stands with arms raised to heaven.  The backdrop seems cloudy and with storms arriving, the view becomes holy and pleasing to God.

Standing on a mountain top raising my hands to heaven,

I look and see the Trinity of God, 

As he looks back to me from where I exist,

The reality of my creation becomes open to me.

This becomes a view of now and from the beginning,

Into the future I stand yet it is the now I live,

My creator stands by reaching out to me,

I see what is present, his very presence.

A figure of humanity I have come,

The gap from here closes upon me,

As I feel the warmth of the closeness of God,

I enter his personage awaiting for me.

Have I dreamed of this or live within,

Is God’s image the now, or what will be,

No future like this could ever be,

You see, now always was.

Ralph B. Hathaway