Jeremiah 29:11-14 -- A poem

NIV Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you," declares the LORD

Jeremiah 29:11-14

I’ve been stretched out

Broken on the rack of life

Had the pieces picked up

And put together again

Only to be wrecked once more

I’ve watched my dreams shatter

Seen them ground away

Become sand on the endless shore

Windswept and lonely in the storm

Where broken yesterdays fall

I thought all those yesterdays

Would be my only ever futures

Repeating… repeating… repeating pain

Fire raining ‘pon my dreams 

As I danced on the edge of a volcano

’Til at last the sandy shore

Brought me to this protected harbor

Where the storms cannot batter me

And I have learned that the fires

Are the forge that has made me

I look back ‘pon those yesterdays

Now I know they were creating

A space of endless gratitude

For the joys of my now… my future

I see Your mighty plan writ in the past

I know the promise fulfilled 

Of Your great work for me… for us

I know now You heard my every cry

And used the fires to Your purpose 

To give me hope and to prosper

“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history – money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery – the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” –C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: ‘Go down again - I dwell among the people.'” -- John Henry Newman

D. Denise Dianaty
© 04 September 2014

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