Dreams die in fear’s grip
Like moulting birds in cages
One key frees us all
“Perfect love drives out fear” 1 John 4:18
Love
Rebuild Haiku
Shaken to the core
Our crumbling foundations
Words of hope rebuild
The Graveyard
I come to the graveyard
Wandering among the black tombstones
The silence echoes amongst the ancient stones
As I search for my own name
I stare at the etched letters
Chiselled into the cold rock
My dark past lies beneath my feet
Locked in a cage of cold earth
My mind cannot help but wander
To a grave now long lost
A grave that could not hold its captive
Where life burst out like a fountain
I lay down my wreath of thorns
As tears stream down my face
His sacrifice means the old me will always stay dead
And my new life will never end
Reject the Lies
I am not worthless
I am not an outcast
I am not hopeless
I am not hated
Depart from me empty lies
No longer will I tolerate you
You try to degrade me, to bring me to my knees in shame
But I will not yield
I will stand strong in what Christ has done for me
My God will tear down the strongholds you have made
His Love will heal the scars you left
What you convinced me to hide, He will call back to the light
In His acceptance will I find peace
And I will revel in the truth about myself
I am holy
I am righteous
I am redeemed
I am restored
Walls of Water
This is an old piece of writing that I wrote several years back. I really like so I thought I would share it.
You are like walls of water, stretching to the heavens, towering to my left and to my right.The sheer mass of the water overwhelms me, tonnes upon tonnes of clear, glinting liquid piled on top of each other.
Surely all the oceans of the world would be just like a drop compared to these incredible pillars. If they fell I would be crushed and buried, lost to the unreachable depths. The force could crush mountains into pulp and bring their lofty peaks to the ground. I fall to my knees at the mercy of this terrifying God.
It is only then I realise that these mountains of water represent your incomprehensible love. Suddenly I am enveloped, swept out of my depths, as the water comes crashing down to embrace me. I am left swirling in the throes of your passion for me. I am intoxicated by the sweet fragrance that fills my nostrils. I am loved, accepted by you.
I look up and see the surface twinkling miles away. I could swim up for days and not reach the top. But instead I sink to the bottom, overawed, and let the currents of your love wash over me.
Land of the Free
I see a land
Just beyond the horizon
Where freedom is the song
And shame is a forgotten memory
Where we run free as the wind
Abandoned in joy
Unshackled from our chains
It is a land where there are no outcasts
None that are unloved
Where the barriers that divide us
Are torn down and rejected
All are welcomed into His circle
To burn radiant in His love
It is a land of mercy
The entrance fee paid for
Every feature shaped and carved
By the unstoppable force that is grace
A cost too high to imagine
A love too committed to back down
A joy that will last for eternity
I see a land
Just beyond the horizon
And with every day
With every act of kindness
It is drawing nearer
Worth
I saw no worth in me
Yet You gave up all You had for me
Hurtful words stuck to my forehead like labels
You spun Your loving words into a crown for me
You rebuilt the ruins of my self esteem
Into a castle, secure and steadfast
Though my heart was locked away
Guarded by tangles of barbed wire
You walked in and healed my deep hurts
You told me I was more
Than the mistakes I had made
You told me I was Yours and nothing could change that
The lies that bound me fell away
And I found my worth in You
You are Loved
I planned you
You are no accident or product of random chance
I took my time when I made you
And I did good
When I look at you, I am proud of you
I am proud to say you’re the product of my handiwork
I am pleased that when the world looks at you, they see a bit of me
I left no stone unturned when I made you
Every detail was thought through
Every gene on every chromosome
Every little quirk of your personality
And more than that I gave you a purpose
I planned out every day of your life in my book
My heart bursts with excitement at the potential that is in you
I can’t wait for the great things you will do through me
I will never hate you; I will never run out of patience with you
You are mine and I will never let you go
I will never reject you
The world may disown you but they never owned you in the first place
You are always mine
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The cry of my heart
The yearning within my soul
His love nothing else
Cracked Pots
Shattered pieces
Shards of clay
Life has handled us roughly
The once smooth texture
Now riddled with a thousand cracks
Damaged goods
Too far gone
We slide to the back of the shelf
Hide ourselves behind the unbroken pots
And we give up on ourselves
But He doesn’t
He searches in the shadows
For those who hide
For those whose confidence has shattered
To bring restoration and to bring new hope
Cracks of shame
Filled with the clay of grace
Old scars of torment
Now our tale of redemption
We step forward
Back into the light
