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To the Ends of the Earth

The Name

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Pierce Taylor Hibbs

We once lived inside a voice

in a garden green and gold.

All we needed we were told.

We listened and we learned to hold

all hope and longing in a choice

to nod Amen and give God fame

as we were planted in one name.

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But we were blinded by the chance

that we might be a voice alone.

We offered up our flesh and bone

to grasp at what we could not own,

and so began a restless dance

between old glory and new shame

as we left behind the ancient name.

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A tower we thought we could build

to make our measure something seen,

a structure that would never lean

but mark us each as king and queen

so we could keep ourselves fulfilled.

But this was all a fragile game.

Our tongues were sundered by the name.

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We wandered then and wander still,

across the hills, across the sea,

enslaved by what we thought was free

and groping for divinity,

as if we were not wholly ill,

and were not fading from the flame

that burns within the name.


Still with patient grace God spoke

and sang a savior into sight,

one from himself for men to fight

and bring us all into his light.

From deathly sleep we all awoke

and found a covering for our shame,

knit from that eternal name.

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It should have been that all was lost

and scattered souls from hope depart,

but God gave his unending heart

to call us back from worlds apart.

And on a day called Pentecost,

the voice set flame to earthly blame

and called us home into the name.

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Stone to stone and seam to seam,

the Spirit crafts and shapes and sands,

uniting strange and distant lands

into a frame marked in God’s hands,

holes where holy love was dreamed.

God builds to show the world he came

And readies rooms within his name.

Pierce Taylor Hibbs

Pierce Taylor Hibbs

Pierce Taylor Hibbs (MAR, ThM Westminster Theological Seminary) serves as Senior Writer and Communication Specialist at Westminster Theological Seminary. He is the author of over 20 books, including the Illumination Award-winning titles Struck Down but Not Destroyed, The Book of Giving, The Great Lie, and One with God. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and three kids.

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