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Journey
By Maya Davis
September 29, 2003
Beyond a curve I cannot see
On map points which I cannot place
Trials lay in wait for me
What I need is Holy Grace
To get me through the situation
I need to seek and find His face
Yet, oblivious, I court
temptation
Boldly following the unknown
Until I stumble in consternation
I must blame my fall on me
alone
The decisions I made were wrong
I'd let my heart become as stone
I forgot I needed Him along
The path that once had
seemed so smooth
Was nothing more than jagged rock
I fell, was bound, and now can't move
Then hands on the eternal
clocks
Linger over bloodstained wood
Reminding me Who opens locks
(If only I'd do the things I
should
I wouldn't get lost along the way
I'd be better! Oh, if only I could...)
Then I remember how to pray
My wounds You heal, my will
You break
My dirty flesh is changed to clean
A new creation again You make
Oh Sovereign Lord, amazing
King
YOU are where my burdens end
You are the grace to which I cling
Take me around this unknown
bend
Transform Me
By Maya Davis
Who I want to be and who I
am
Stand opposite each other across this abyss.
I stare longingly at the
potential and the promise
Feeling that the distance between the current and the hope
Is beyond vast.
The calluses on my knees are
great, yet
They are no less than the calluses on my heart.
The image of who I want to
be still beckons.
I yearn to crash myself through to the other side
But I fear that if I were to do so, I would be left with
Nothing.
And the image I want to be would be
Shattered
On the ground.
The struggle between the one
I am
And what I crave is agonizing.
The memory of my sins leaks
from me like fountains
And although I know Your grace is great,
When will I change into that which is no longer sin?
I still need you to come in
and like a Surgeon
Cut away the deadness in my soul.
Transform the image I see
Until who I am is You.
ninetyandnine.com
© 2003, Maya Davis
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Maya Davis
and her husband moved to
North Carolina
this summer. They are celebrating eight years of marriage and find it pretty
fascinating that they still love each other after all this time.
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