Hosea 6:4 “What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with
you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that
goes early away.”
when i am Hosea 6:4
©4-26-12 hannah mclean
Oh Holy Eyes
that look on me
lamenting and sorrowing,
what is this flimsy love i offer
in claims of devotion?
Worthy Father,
i bend so easily
in the sway of daily life
quickly taken from
my place before You
to the nothingness
that abounds behind me.
why does my head
so effortlessly turn
and my back
so naturally follow?
i find myself
looking up to find
darkness
where only a moment before
Light had boldly shined.
i praise You
that though i cause You
sorrow
You always carry me back.
that though my frail
excuse for worship
fails to do You justice,
You hold out Your hand.
You breathe in my
fumbling prayers
as though they were
the sweetest of incense
or the loveliest aroma.
and Your answer
to the question You ponder
is to pour on me
a perfect Love
that redeems my own.
©4-26-12 hannah mclean
Oh Holy Eyes
that look on me
lamenting and sorrowing,
what is this flimsy love i offer
in claims of devotion?
Worthy Father,
i bend so easily
in the sway of daily life
quickly taken from
my place before You
to the nothingness
that abounds behind me.
why does my head
so effortlessly turn
and my back
so naturally follow?
i find myself
looking up to find
darkness
where only a moment before
Light had boldly shined.
i praise You
that though i cause You
sorrow
You always carry me back.
that though my frail
excuse for worship
fails to do You justice,
You hold out Your hand.
You breathe in my
fumbling prayers
as though they were
the sweetest of incense
or the loveliest aroma.
and Your answer
to the question You ponder
is to pour on me
a perfect Love
that redeems my own.
Jeremiah
31:3 "The LORD appeared to him from far away. 'I have loved you with an
everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.'"
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