Dancing with the Divine

Him

Just some gentle thoughts

from one who's so aware

of all You've brought

her through

and all that You can do

in a willing soul!

What a God of love!

Perfectly willing to come from

Your throne on high to tiny little us

just because

Your heart beats

for each

as if each was the only one!

And this soul rests right now

deep in Your tenderness somehow,

as if this world doesn't even exist.

Your peace passes understanding

even amidst

all this life can throw

at a soul.

And what a place to be!

free

from everything

that brings

distress

tears

anguish

fear.

Here in this place

when I gaze

upon Your face

the things of life

that cause such strife

shrink to nothing at all.

And that You call

me to You at all

after my many, many

falls,

reveals so much of Who You are!

For I remember every weakest moment

And You, my God,

don't.

Because of that,

I remember

not in shame or guilt,

but in recognition of

the person You have built

out of that pile of ashes!

And, too, I wish to never forget

how I let

myself fall in the first place!

For me, it used to be

a race to see

who could get the most

accolades

pleasure

things that would measure

a person's worth in the world's domain;

things that brought dullness to pain.

I didn't know then

that if I'd just let you in

that pain would not remain!

And I look back now

and cannot comprehend how

You have healed so much in one soul!

How You took one so

broken and found

You could use even her.

For she was sure

before You broke in

to her broken world and shattered mind

that all there was to find

within

was darkness

hopelessness

fear.

And yet, here

she sits so complete

in You--

so whole and fulfilled!

How can this be

that she

has been so transformed?

From pain and struggle from the very moment she was born,

to this now--His in every way!

Every day

she longs to stay

in this place with You!

But You have healed her not for herself alone,

but also because there is work to be done

in a world that needs that same Light

that ended her fight

with the darkness that seeks to destroy!

She consents to anything

You ever ask of her

in order to reach fellow sojourners,

for she feels their spiritual cries almost daily.

The gravity and weight

of their spiritual pain

is not lost on her.

She sees the fronted smiles,

artificial confidence,

anger,

selfishness,

and understands completely

what they mask

in order that others won't see

the pain,

the fear,

the insecurities

in which they believe

they are alone.

She desperately wants them to know

the Love that heals it all--

to hear the call

of the One in Whom

no one is alone!

The One who can bear

whatever is there

in the deepest recesses of any soul!

No secret too deep, no transgression so great

that He has not already forgiven!

No damage or woundedness too much for His touch not to heal in the blink of an eye!

He longs for all to open to Him

and let the Master's touch begin

to transform what nothing else can!

And

if this grateful, tiny soul

can be used to show

even one

the way to Him,

then it shall be a life worth any cost--

worth anything the world may think she has lost

out on in following Him!

She knows He is worth anything,

and that nothing can even begin

to compare

with what she receives there

in that place with Him!

5/25/2013