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How beautiful, how wonderful
Are You, are Your works,
Are You, and Your grace,
You are, and Your face.
What do we know of beauty,
That is not from You?
What is this longing for wonder,
If You did not plant in our hearts?
Petals stretching to wake,
Wind whistling to storm,
Sunsets painting the sky,
Creatures rising in ovation.
A turn of phrase,
A lifting melody,
A quickening within,
Our spirits recognise.
How beautiful, how wonderful
Are You, O Lord.
Fill us with awe once again.
sč
Singapore, August 28th, 2007
Blessed are the meek,
Those whom the strong despise,
For though it sounds like weak,
Its reality is found in Christ.
To you who are gentle and humble of heart,
Lowly, unassuming, even helpless we see,
May your burden be toward others to edify,
And your eyes off the self to justify.
The Spirit grant you patience in affront,
A cheek to turn and rise and take the blows,
For though none may see your quiet faith and trust bear fruit,
Take heart; the earth, this inheritance, will be your tribute.
Matt. 5: 5
sč
Singapore, August 15th, 2007
Blessed are those who mourn,
We whose hearts are broken,
Our burdens saddled with helplessness,
Reeling and grieving from the blows life gives.
But the bearing of the mourning is not in despairing,
For this suffering is a door into communion,
With You who suffered and mourned as an alien,
Cast out, rejected and crushed on a tree.
And so from this dark comes relief,
Not with an answer but a presence,
For our afflictions are but a hollowing out,
A dwelling for You and Your comfort,
Unto which brings infinite joy.
Matt. 5: 4
sč
Singapore, August 14th, 2007
Blessed are the poor in spirit,
The feeble, not the mighty,
The child humble enough to accept,
Not the soldier in whose own prowess he boasts.
Though poor in spirit we do not revel in the dust,
We see ourselves and find empty hands,
We see His glory and know we're losers apart from Him,
Unto which we're grateful for everything is now a gift.
And so we are poor to be rich,
No longer consuming, may we be consumed by You.
We are detached from what we can own,
And now attached to what we cannot own,
For the Kingdom is not to be grasped in the future,
It is a gift You give for the now.
Matt. 5: 3
sč
Singapore, August 9th, 2007
