Honestly, I cannot fully express everything that my recent trip has been in words.
During the debrief time at the end of my trip, I read this poem to express a lot of how the trip made me feel.
I still think it applies rather well, to give a general view of the impact.
A missing person
Afterthought
Always chasing what is not
Steady growth
I cannot change
Yet gaining more within my range
I do not know
I cannot hear
Approaching only what I fear
New desires
Misbegotten
Shall become old, and then forgotten
I cannot see
Just what is true
But I shall find myself in You
My one goal
That I have truly
Is to pursue You, and pay You duly
But I am at
A loss to pay
Forever ruined in my way
So give to me
One more chance
Within this, my lifelong dance
While I can never
Pay it back
You have provided what I lack
Now I will live
Just to serve
Making straight what once did curve
A prodigal
One that was lost
I am forgiven by the Lord of hosts
Where found
Empty desire
Consume me now with all Your fire
Let my life
My heart, my all
Before You only forever fall
I have grown
From no hope
Broadened horizons, widened scope
Take me out
Of the darkness
So that Your Love I can harness
While I totter
On an edge
Still You will receive this pledge
So I stand
Forever thankful
For a Love beyond the hateful
Hateful lives
That stem from fears
Others that collapse in tears
Reaching far
Beyond myself
To understand those on this shelf
I would become
What I dream
In order to provide a seem
To fix a hole
In Someone's heart
Turn them from ruin to work of art
But only through
The strength of One
Who understood before I'd begun
So not on my
Two feet I stand
But on my rock, and in His hand
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