Prayer for the slowly growing closer #9 I say thank You

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jellybeans
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since 2000-10-13

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0 posted 2003-06-30 05:31 PM

I say thank You

I am inadequately worded to explain
that your Grace and Mercy abounds,
but testimony has been poetically chronicled
for anyone to read where I came from
and where I am now.

You are my verse and the song in my heart,
hope and support for the times when I fear
falling short of the goal.

I carried guilt and sin for much longer
than was necessary, much longer than your love intended.
But in my life, love was more than nonexistent,
nothing less than Holy could have liberated
my heart from its blackened beating.
Now faithful devotion is dissolving
the bars behind which I previously subsisted;
my Lord with all my heart
I say thank you.

Nights were overflowing with thinking
and daytimes were spent dreaming;
reasoning was retreating,
racing ever further from grasp.
I stop now to say thank you
for sanity’s returning.

The days when I am stretched thin
to the point of breaking;
I thank you for being the elastic
that bounces me back into
the realm of normal living.

I thank you for the peace within
when without is not so

and when in this world I can
no longer abide, I thank you
for the cleft in which you cover me.

You came to this earth, the model of humbleness,
thus you give me reason to be quiet and listen,
and for this I thank you.

I was a desert and you my restoration.
Tear drops that long ago ran empty,
now well up in welcome weeping
Thank you for the moisture, much needed.

The love with which you carried the sins
of the world to Calvary is beyond
my comprehension; and so I humbly profess
my love to you and gratitude eternal.
Thank you my Savior,
my soul you redeemed.

Seven times seventy is hard enough
to understand, but
every
time
I bend my knee and ask
you take my burden and
wash me pure and clean-
Lord, thank you for gifting me
with Your forgiveness.

You are the air I breathe,
you are my heart’s beating-
Lord you are all of this
and more than I can voice, thank you,
You are everything to me.

[This message has been edited by jellybeans (06-30-2003 06:53 PM).]

QjQ
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since 2003-04-18

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1 posted 2003-06-30 05:37 PM

beautiful write,,,,

A voice of honesty
   is treasured
more than voices
   of flattery
      QjQ

jellybeans
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since 2000-10-13

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2 posted 2003-06-30 06:22 PM

thank you, I post this feeling the inadequacy that I wrote this with, I just could not capture the emotions the way I feel them.....sigh

BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23

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3 posted 2003-06-30 06:25 PM

You dear poetess have gathered grace in all it's purity....
professing a love that compliments your words beautifully.
Truly, this is one of the nicest poems I have ever read on the subject.

Peace, and thank you for spreading God's love.

jellybeans
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4 posted 2003-06-30 06:30 PM

thank you so much, I trully felt I had not the words to do my 'subject' justice, so your reading and comments are welcomed greatly

Duncan
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5 posted 2003-06-30 06:40 PM

"Nights were overflowing with thinking
and daytimes were spent dreaming;
reasoning was retreating,
racing ever further from grasp.
I stop now to say thank you
for sanity’s returning."

Your gratitude is well expressed and sincere jb. Enjoyed the read!

Brad Majors

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since 2001-04-03

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6 posted 2003-06-30 06:52 PM

very nicely done!

jellybeans
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7 posted 2003-06-30 06:57 PM

Duncan and Brad, thank you...I wanted so much for this to come out well, to express my true gratitude, your comments are very much appreciated

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

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8 posted 2003-06-30 10:02 PM

I carried guilt and sin for much longer
than was necessary, much longer than your love intended.

Amen. *G* But you know I never stop with just adding my two cents worth! LOL

Reading this is knowing your search... for peace within in spite of what's outside, for ability to accept the forgiveness already given... and with every step we take with you, we feel the thankfulness, know the gratitude. *S* So yes... you succeeded. *S* Wonderful work!

passing shadows
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9 posted 2003-07-01 03:09 AM

I needed this

1slick_lady
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10 posted 2003-07-01 03:39 AM

"You are everything to me."

jb...i adore your writing always have always will...others will let us down.."One" never will...h

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