Saturday, July 4, 2009

How?

How?

How am I worthy of this trust?
How can you be so faithful?
How can I sit and do nothing,
When you give me Everything?
When you are my Everything?

How am I worth so much trouble?
How can You be so forgiving?
How can I hold so much in myself,
When You want me to come to You with all my burdens?

You are holy.
And I am wholly.
Wholly surrendered.
I am wholly Yours.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

I Tried

I Tried

I tried to piece it all together,
Tried to read between the lines,
Tried to hypothesize, test, and solve it.
But I failed each and every time.

I tried to master all there is,
Tried to perfect each simple rhyme,
Tried to ace every subject handed me,
Make a penny be a dime.

I tried to exceed expectations,
I tried to be the best,
I tried to honor all God’s wishes,
I tried to give a hundred and ten percent.

I tried to keep myself from falling,
Tried to keep myself from failing,
Tried to never be pulled down,
And tried to lift others up.

When that failed…

I tried to pick up all the pieces,
Tried to be my only hope,
Tried to find my own redemption,
Tried to make what goes down go up.

Then I realized…

Only You can piece it all together.
Only You can be the Master.
Only You can set the limits of expectations.
Only You can keep me from falling.
Only You can pick up the pieces.
Only You can fix my brokenness.
Only You can save me from myself.