January 2011

Let Him Be

Tiny Infant, snug and sweet,

Laying in your manger seat,

Wanted now, but not for long,

Age after age shall sing this song

In empty cribs,

Unhappy wombs,

Silent, still, and pristine rooms.

No fingerprints to smudge the glass.

No little feet to roam the grass.

No fingernails all black with dirt,

Yards littered with pets and boards and bricks.

You’d love to play upon your earth;

Fill stony hearts with joy and mirth.

Do fill my heart, my home, my womb.

Make way, my life, and give Him room

To romp and roam, to shout and whoop.

The dirt is His, the water too.

His fingerprints, precious rewards for you.

Let Him come, again and again.

Let Him be.

Just let Him in.

January 2011

In the Eye of the Storm

In the eye of the storm

I find You.

As my troubles swirl around,

I adore You.

You are with me in my pain,

And I turn to You again.

In the eye of the storm

I am with You.

When my brothers and my sisters

Knock me down,

When upon my sincere efforts

Others frown,

You are with me in my pain,

And I turn to You again.

In the eye of the storm

I adore You.

January 1991

I bade the Sea Goodbye

It lapped against the sandy shore,

                I bade the sea goodbye.

It wept a song of sweet goodbye,

                It sang its song no more.

It threw its waves up to the sky,

                I bade the sea goodbye.

It looked at me as if to laugh

                And then began to cry.

It foamed, it thrashed, it waved goodbye.

                I bade the sea goodbye.

It settled down.  The waves, they slept.

                I bade the sea goodbye.

June 1992

Freedom Found

Oh Truth that I could hear you say

All that my heart longs to obey.

Oh that you would reveal your light

That I might find you in the night.

You are my hope and joy, you see;

'Tis in your light I long to be.

Yet why are you so hard to find?

Perhaps your light has made me blind.

Or perhaps I am afraid to see

That which you illumine for love of me.

In you, my friend, is freedom found,

Face me that I may not be bound.

23 July 1993

Boundless Love

O silent face with head bowed down

To fill our hearts with purest love,

Had I but strength to bear Thy pain,

Perhaps I’d raise my eyes to gaze

Upon your humble form.

Yet as it is, my eyes just stare

Upon the wood on which you’re hung,

As one by one your teardrops fall

To melt my frozen frame.

"Then rise, my love, and fear no more,

For love does have no bounds, you know,

And as my eyes spill unto you,

Do know my love for you does burn

In wait to bring you home."

11 September, 1993

All in One

Alone in the desert stillness

No sign of life, for life is ever-present.

Those whom I cherished so far away

Could not have been so near as in this dark, desolate place.

For in this place, time and space are naught,

And of the Lamb’s companions, all our hearts are one.

And as He pours out his love in flesh and blood,

We bow our wills to his, and He takes us all into himself.

I stand alone

For I stand in Him

And He is All in One.