To Live

Can I tell you a story as I sit -
Alongside one who welcomes Home…
To come and collect their beloved home?

If you didn’t fix it -
It’s not fixed.

If you regret it -
You regret it.

If you need to forgive -
You need to forgive.

If you live with reckless abandon and love…
Love loves with reckless abandon.

If you didn’t figure it out -
It’s still unsolved.

If you think you’ve arrived…
It’s shocking to discover -
Life keeps going.

But the greatest of these -
IS LOVE.

It covers a multitude of sins…
Patches together BEAUTY for ashes…
Infuses HOPE into despair…
Trades mourning for JOY…

All because of God.

Who continually works behind to scenes…
To sift and to sieve the good and the evil -
And bring new life out of dry bones.

This is OUR GOD.

And so I sit…
And take inventory
Of my own heart…
Under and through Grace.