Mercifully Redeemed

Mercifully Redeemed

Along narrow pathways littered with dead and dying vines that obscured the cold hard ground , I have traveled.

Among crumbling ruins I have lived, and in those same ruins died. 

It seems to me as if these things lived once, 

long ago, as if in some distant memory.

For I once killed all around me,

turned love into hate,

took opportunities and slammed doors,

turned beautiful glittering life,

and left it grey and hopeless.

But I did not realize what I had done.

Rage from insults and 

injustices, that happened so long ago, that even in my rage

I was not sure exactly what they were.....

only that I was angry,

and hurt,

and devoid of hope,

until the point that this rage was I that I knew,

all that I was,

and I took these feelings and created chaos...

I gave birth to the most perfect storm. 

I was on a path of darkness, 

for so so long,

when finally, I saw Your Light,

and those darkness is yet all around, 

and I sometimes have to fight,

I see that I can find my way. 

Lord, I see your glory in the face of my son,

and I see your glory in my daughter, how she's grown,

Lord I see your glory in all these things that you have made...

Lord, you have rescued me. 

Light now breaks through the forest around me, 

I had forgotten the warmth of sun upon my face.

Beauty, now is seen,

where only once colorless forms lived. 

Pain is still felt, 

and uncertainty,

 for You did not promise life would be perfect, 

only that You would guide me and lend me strength to endure....

and all of this I feel Lord, 

all of this I Know. 

Courage stands in place of shame, 

and love resides where I once had indifference.

I will keep on, persevere,

when before I knew You,

only defeat was known. 

Lord, you are my favorite song.

I hear your name in the wind, in the songs of birds

and in the laughter of children. 

I see your face, 

in the kindness of strangers,

in the victory of the underdog,

in the bold colors in which you painted this world.

Lord, you have saved me. 

I accepted your outstretched hand,

felt your comforting embrace,

and my life is all the better for it...

For now, I truly live, 

when before I barely existed.

Let me now, 

Oh Lord, 

Bring You Glory!

Let Me Now Be your Song!

I will shout loudly from the mountain tops that You,

The Holy Spirit, Bringer of Righteous Fire, 

have set my heart aflame,

and kissed my face with your mighty winds!

I will proclaim with vigor to all who will hear it,

that You, Yahweh, God of Israel,

is the Almighty God, Most Righteous, Creator of All Things!

I will sing joyfully, each day, in hopes all will hear it,

that You, 

Christ Jesus, the Son of Man,

is my Merciful Redeemer!

John 3:16

May any who are lost, find salvation in Christ Jesus. Love to you all, and hope that you will find peace in Him.