Keeper Of The Spring

I found the living water, so soothing and so pure.
It gave me all the strength I needed to endure.
And as my eyes beheld the crystal stream, so clean and bright,
I wondered at the source of my delight.

How could the stream, that followed the rocky mountain crease,
Stay still so pure and sparkling through all this world's debris?
I thought it so amazing that I sought to find the course
And climbed the mountain to the highest source.

The spring came bubbling from the rocks, so clean and pure up there
And, the, I saw a Keeper watching~always with great care.
He cleaned the spring out daily and would never least allow
One bit of filth to stay there, on His solemn vow.

He gave me, then, a lesson that I love with all my heart.
He made me Keeper of the Spring of Love which is my part.
I will pass pure waters of life where e'er I go
Because I keep my spring, so clean is not spotted from below.

Keeper of the Spring of Love, make me a servant true.
Let me build forever upon the likes of You,
And keep the waters of my life pure, clean, life-giving words~
That only witness true and whole, and make men glad they heard!

©Joan Clifton Costner