Amena Brown
You must find beauty in what doesn’t seem beautiful
You took a lump of clay
gave it a name
and called it human
blew breath from Your eternally deep lungs
depositing spirit into wombs and souls
You made us whole
from the first breath we breathed
the first time we opened our eyes
You were all we could see
but we wanted to [...]
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Masterpiece
Posted in God, poetry, tagged AmenaBrown, masterpiece, spokenWord on Saturday, May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll stand in the gap
Posted in parents, poetry, prayer, verses, tagged children, Ezekiel, fears, gap, OswaldChambers, Psalm, ShirleyPopeWaite on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shirley Pope Waite
[Ezekiel 22:30; Psalm 69:4]
I’ll stand in the gap for my son.
I’ll stand ’til the victory’s won.
This one thing I know:
That you love Him so,
And your work with my child is not done.
I’ll stand in the gap every day,
And there I will fervently pray.
And Lord just one favor:
Don’t let me waver
If things get quite [...]
