STEP WITHIN THE CIRCLE

Cool beach umbrella
  rakishly perched 
  in the summer sand
You mean so very little 
  to me
Until I step within
  the circle of your shade.
Drab, blood-soaked cross
  jolted into a hole 
  on a rocky hill
I find so little in you
Until I step within
  the circle of your love.

—Nancy Spiegelberg

"Hereby perceive we the love of  God,
because He laid down his life for us..."
I John 3:16

"...him that cometh to me I will in 
no wise cast out."        
John 6:37

©1971 Nancy Spiegelberg