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When You First Loved Me

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-04-11 11:36 AM

When You First Loved Me
Virginia Salter

When You first loved me,
my spirit came into being
filled with promise, filled with love.
Then you loved me into life
though I was unaware of you
beyond the edges of my heart.

When I first loved You,
I was filled with hope and longing
to see Your face, to feel Your touch,
to know You beyond my heart and soul.

When I first became aware of an inkling of the depth
of Your love for me,
I was high and lifted up,
filled with Your promise,
filled with rejoicing,
filled with strength for the future.

Then the future came
with a knocking, rapping, beating
it came.
Spinning, twisting, digging
until I was as full of holes
as wormwood.

With perforated faith,
buckshot heart,
splintered feet, I walk
precariously the path
I try to follow.

I fall, spent, seeking healing,
yet too frail to do more than wait
upon Your will, Your strength,
Your love to indwell me again,
to allow You into the empty places.
May I be as a sponge and You, Lord,
my Oasis of living water.

© March 12, 2000

Psalm 42

sandgrain
Member Elite

since 1999-09-21

Posts 3662
Sycamore, IL, USA

1 posted 2001-04-11 11:49 AM

Your humbleness and longing, portrayed in sharp imagery, make this an outstanding piece. Rae

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

2 posted 2001-04-11 01:37 PM

Living Water He is dear VAS and he will fill you up. Wonderful words of humble faith. Joyce

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

3 posted 2001-04-12 04:50 PM

Beautiful and may you soon feel His love claiming you again.

Betty Lou Hebert

Lighthousebob
Member Elite

since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

4 posted 2001-04-13 10:09 PM

VAS,

So very emotionally descriptive where your words that I felt them flow as if they were being said directly to God from my heart....

Even when life fills us full of holes we are still useful as a sponge. I really like this thought.

Bob <><

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