April 24^th, 2004

In all your dealings with me have You been so kind,

So thoughtful, so tender and loving and so careful

To tell me that You still love me, no matter what !

I seems that so often I do forget Your gentle touch

And Your sweet fragrance, and when I am wandering

About My day and sometimes oblivious even to Your advances.

Like a gentle lover, I do not want to ever forget Your smell,

Your touch, Your holiness, Your Divine countenance though

I cannot see Your face, I do see Your features,

even as You see mine. Yet when You look at mine, though

You see the dirt and the imperfection, You tell me I’m lovely.

And when I see You, there is nothing but perfection…perfect

Love and kindness, perfect patience and peace, and tender joy

That bubbles up escaping from my soul as if I am so lost

In love, I have forgotten all my senses.

Singing in rhyme and tenderly calling to You, oh come My LORD

Change my heart and soul that I can reflect only Your love and glory,

That I can demonstrate Your great grace and kindness and power.

You say, “Come dance with me” and my heart is enraptured that

You would want to dance with the likes of me, so fumbling and

Anxiously, I retreat to that place where we can be alone,

And then You surprise me because You just love me, You just

Want to spend time with me, as if You so enjoy my company

That You never want to separate from me, and I am astonished

That this mighty KING would spend such time with me

And truly, truly loves me, just for me !

The tears flow forth from that realization that You really,

Really care for me, as if I were the only one here, and they flow

Like a river now, realizing the reality of how great is Your grace,

How great is Your love, and how far apart I am from that perfection.

Oh fill me My King with more of YOU, and let me have understanding

Of that great grace and kindness that so forbears with my wretched

Weakness, and flood my soul with YOUR LOVE that I am equally