Jesus said to his disciples:
Mark 13:33-37
“Be watchful! Be alert!
You do not know when the time will come.
It is like a man traveling abroad.
He leaves home and places his servants in charge,
each with his own work,
and orders the gatekeeper to be on the watch.
Watch, therefore;
you do not know when the lord of the house is coming,
whether in the evening, or at midnight,
or at cockcrow, or in the morning.
May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping.
What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’”
Awake my heart, O Lord,
for I have been asleep,
but now the night is creeping toward
the watch that I must keep.
And touch my weary eyes:
The sun has long gone down,
and I must wait a new star's rise,
outshining even dawn.
You, sun of justice, rose,
and oh! your day was bright!
You went as every evening goes;
now we wait out the night.
For day will come again
a shining, searing blaze:
the presence of the Great Amen,
light thrown on all our ways.
A day without an end,
a night without a dawn,
where day and night abide as friends
and all our fear is gone.
Then wake my heart, O Lord;
let me not miss that light
but keep me ever yearning toward
your glory in the night.
Il Cristo Redentore By Melozzo da Forlì (attributed) – http://www.piosodaliziodeipiceni.it/img/24sede.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43654623
Kate Bluett 
