You Held Me Close

No words can ever be enough
to describe the welling up of tears,
the tightness in my heart,
the aching of my soul,
and the trembling under my heavy burden.

The gratefulness that I feel
is a petal in a gale
a droplet that falls into an ocean
a grain of sand on the beach,
in the face of Your mighty love!

It is dismissed,
because I am healed
bandages unwound from my aching eyes,
so that tears can fall freely down my face.
The light that I see,
is painful yet clear-
it is better to be wise than the fool.

I thank You for staying on the path,
even as i jumped down the ravine.
I thank You for never being away,
always calling from above,
just in sight of my unseeing eyes.

I thank You for You have held me close,
never letting me go,
even as i tried to push away Your hands that try only to protect me.

2 Sept 2006