The Interlude

What is an 'Interlude'?

• An intervening or interruptive period, space or event.

• A musical composition inserted between parts of a longer composition, drama or religious service.

In His love, He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world…(Ephesians 1:4)

You guide me with Your counsel, and afterward You will take me into glory.(Psalm 73:24)

The Interlude of our Lives

From eternity to eternity I was alive, 
In Your all-perceiving infinite eye, 
When in secret You formed my inmost soul,
Woven intricately and wonderfully whole.

My being was not hidden from God,
Never separate, nor far from His thoughts,
I was destined to abide beneath His wing,
In close, intimate communion with the King.

And this short life I now live is an interlude,
An intervention that would briefly intrude,
Upon that eternity without beginning or end, 
Where all divine mysteries we might comprehend.

This world is but a dividing period or space,
For all its grand illusions and boastful ways,
A rusting, temporal dimension inserted,
Into the unfathomable infinite, lying uncharted.
 
Where the Creator dwells in unapproachable light,
An unfading glory too blinding for mortal sight,
And all great, unsearchable things lie revealed,
In this domain beyond what man has seen or conceived.

Inside space, time has a beginning and end,
Where to its laws all creatures and events bend,
And the drama of humanity occurs in acts and scenes,
Unfurling themselves in orderly sequence.

So each man's time spent within its bounds,
Is an interlude set into the infinite that surrounds,
For in the depths of each immortal, precious heart,
God has placed eternity- the longing for a realm apart.

That man might learn through toil and suffering,
The wisdom and character that is God's highest calling,
And seek his Creator, obey His command,
Love without seeing, and in faith understand.

To such a man is extended in even greater love,
God's powerful yet tender hand, from above,
When he at his last, shuddering breath,
Is lifted up into glory to savor heaven's wealth!

And so my own interlude I live in eternity's light,
This short period away from God and celestial delight,
Until He reaches out His hand and bids me arise,
To drop my cross and follow Christ to paradise!

This poem was inspired by a post (August 8, 2021) written by Kayla Duerler's mother on the Instagram page @she_had_no_regrets . Kayla was a young American girl who died in a car accident in 2018 at the age of just 16. Both of us would have been the same age now. Her life and legacy has been immortalized in a book written by her mother, 'SHE HAD NO REGRETS: The Life of a Girl Who Knew Who She Was'.