Tuesday, January 15, 2013
My fault.
God grant me the willingness to welcome
each new conviction,
though the surprise of a newfound fault
always drops me from a great height,
leaving me windless and frightened
like a child fallen off a swing.
Though my face grows red with shame
and though my disgrace stings like the Dickens,
compresses my lungs,
sticks needles in my throat,
makes me want to hide,
or explain,
or fight,
let me stand instead with my fists down by my side,
not resisting the gift of infant truth,
but letting the fullness of all my oversight
wash over me in the daylight
so that I can see it clearly.
Help me stand in the fool I have been
and open my eyes
to what has been obvious to those
I would have rather impressed.
When my blood rushes hot to my head
full of the gravity and horror of my own error,
let me welcome it as a friend
and not waste time denying it.
For there is grace enough.
There is always grace enough.
My lack is upheld in your sufficiency.
You have freed me to learn.
You have freed me to drop old ways
like outgrown clothes.
You have freed me to laugh
at the comedy of my sole soul self
and revel in the fullness of You.
For this is where we are going together,
You and I.
You lead me into a safety so wide and so deep
that I, like a daughter tossed into the warm March air,
might learn the delights of Love and loving
unflinchingly.
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I LOVE this. It speaks my heart to a T! (With it crossed!) It does take grace... I've taken note recently, of the beautiful truth and simplicity in the salutation - "grace be with you all".
ReplyDeleteYou string words like pearls!