RELATIONSHIPS

He could have been the Healer of His saints

And that relationship would have been fine

When they found grace and power that were divine

Removed their ills and answered their complaints;

He could have been the One who cleansed the taints

Of sin, and used His chastening to refine

Reluctant souls; holding them to His line

He could have been One binding by constraints.

And He is all of these; and many more

Relationships of blessing or of claim

Direct our hearts to worship and adore,

Conscious of His transcendent, holy Name;

Yet how much grander that He chose to gather

Us as His sons, and took the place of Father.