this is not who I am this old sin-song I sing a lingering melody I did not pen and it did not pin me against myself in Christ—I am free in Christ—I am me a whole creation from the start I was living with a broken heart in a world with a imperfect melody its […]
even with all these broken pieces
“Even with all your broken pieces I make wholeness, not perfection Even with all your broken pieces I have a greater story to tell Even with all your broken pieces I give you living water from My well Even will all your broken pieces I will fill you and rush through you Even with all […]
the alabaster woman
I am broken at your feet, poured out before you now I have nothing left to give so empty Yet this is where praise begins it fills the spaces between the shards of my shattered heart this is where worship comes and makes brokenness beautiful and penetrates the emptiest places in me She heard that […]
And we are these orphans
“In You the orphan finds mercy.” [Hosea 14.3] And we are these orphans, forsaken by the false fathers we crafted, in need of the mercy You alone can give. We are these orphans, who flee Your pursuit, the one who alone can save & secure us again. We are these orphans, desperate and dying of […]
find me
Find me in the place where I want to run Where my feet are poised To take off Because they refuse to be planted Planted upon the plan, The plan my own strength demands Find me in this place where my soul refuses to be comforted My feet have slipped My eyes pour forth tears […]
my daughter, my delight
(a paraphrase of proverbs 23.17-19, 26) Let not your heart grow restless where it sits, ill contented, envious over sinners who can go their own way by the light of their own eyes, who can run, run, run as if no one will catch them. They will be caught in fear of Him, who has […]