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Poetry Sunday—Grace for Grace

 

As I wrote today’s poem, I myself wondered if the two rhythms would clash.  There is that hurried, busy world that we live each day.  In that world, I am pulled by all the demands of a very busy, chaotic job at times.  Striving to give all that I can to complete the task, I worry that grace sometimes gets hidden there.

DSC00157  I am realizing as the autumn of my life is pressing in, that my greatest commission is to spread the love, grace and joy of my heavenly Father to all I meet. More and more I feel the urgency to spread His Wonderful Gospel.  To do so I need His Grace to shower me each new day.  I need the grace of yesterday which brought my salvation.  I need fresh new springs of grace for today.  Then, I need the flowing living waters of future grace for tomorrow.  Just as a water spring brings forth new water, the living waters of the word brings forth new grace for each new day.  Yesterday is but a memory.  Today is a new day.  I urge you to take time from your busy life, to spend time in quiet retreat with God.  In Him you will find the peace, tranquility, hope, joy, and love that your heart needs to face each new day. 

Grace for Grace

By Effie Darlene Barba

 

In the bustle of life

So filled with strife

I rush to and fro

With no time to show

Your love and your grace

With a tired weary face

It is harder to shine

The joy that is mine

I fall to my knees

To ask you Lord please

Let me show your love more

Let it flow, let it pour

This is my desire

Then to bed I retire

Feeling lost in defeat

In my silent retreat

In the dark of the night

Your arms hold me tight

Your voice I have heard

You whisper Your word

Or sing a love song

And I know I belong

Then at the dawn break

Refreshed I awake

To begin a new day

But first, I must pray

To say a Thank you

For Your Grace anew

Like a bubbling spring

My heart then must sing

 

“Grace for Grace, your love you show

As living waters fresh do flow

With mercies new for each new day

My sins and faults all washed away

That I may stand before your throne

And Call upon your name Alone

Your Glorious light so clearly shine

And show the path You chose as mine

The path that leads me to Your side

Where in your love I will abide

Oh, let Your Love within me Grow

Until it then does over flow

Unto a world who needs to see

Your love and grace—this is my plea”

Remember this.  God’s mercy and grace is new each morning flowing forth toward all who come to His fountains of living water to drink.  Do you know Jesus as Your Savior? 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:16-19)

 

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