Mercy (a poem)

Here I am yet again,
To begin anew…again.

God of patience, God of kindness

Do not rebuke me from Your sight.

For though I stumble, and yes I fall,

By Your grace I'm rescued from my plight.

To me this burden is very heavy,

I cannot carry such a load.

But You won’t leave me because 

You’ve already walked this lonely road.

So it's to You I run, collapsing

exhausted at Your feet.

And laying there in this state,

It’s with Your touch I feel complete.
 
So in Your strength I persevere
Moment-by-moment and day-by-day.
 
And in Your love I will not fear
As I stand again and begin to pray.

Author note: yeah, I know it ain't Yeats, but what can I say, it came from the heart.  What's really interesting, is I wrote this in my Journal on September 24, seven days before I was knocked out and carted off in an ambulance.  I guess it was the beginning of entering into a new season of life for learning how much God's really in control in spite of my own human efforts.