Rivers of Joy

Rivers of joy were prepared 

from the foundation of the world 

to flow from God to your soul,

to fill your soul like a lake of living water.

Rivers of delight were prepared 

to knit all souls together as one 

from the moment of their conception.

This is their delight: 

hearing the voice of God,

the tie that binds.

Rivers of exaltation will flow,

like exhalation from above to below,

until they return from below to above.

Rivers of pleasure, 

powerful in purity,

enduring and renewing,

leaping from end to beginning

and from beginning to end

and to the final beginning,

bringing you to God.

Rivers of love,

immense and peaceful love,

trickling and flowing and flooding,

curing the world of sadness,

soaking the earth

with the knowledge of God.

The Adam, on the day they were formed,

though they were as tall as the heavens,

died as an infant.

Rivers of friendship,

between God and Abraham's son,

like the friendship of a womb,

flow out and go forth,

to restore the world,

to give birth again

to the infant that died.

A pure river of the water of life awaits you, 

clear and strong as everlasting crystal, 

flowing out from the Throne of Glory.

The springs of the joy of Israel’s God well up.

The springs of the joy of the Eternal One

rise and flow out of his knowledge,

his covenant that he is Israel's God.

His rivers of joy shine and gleam with eternal light,

the light of his anticipation,

long before he creates the heavens and earth.