everlasting

Everlasting, You are eternal
Beyond merely existing
Your nature is constant,
Is constantly dependable.

Sturdy, Your love is robust
Not flinching or looking away
It sees all that was, is and will be,
Yet gives itself to love, forgive and be hurt
Over and over and over again.

Punctured, my soul it leaks
For though I receive Your love
Life, this world they batter and wear me down
Each piercing another drop that drips till I'm dry.

But unchanging, how glad I am You are,
Always full to fill my heart,
Always fool to love me still,
Always Father to we, failed and abandoned.

Everlasting, You alone are unequalled.

sč
KL, December 27th, 2007

advenio

Silently, secretly, You broke into our world,
No trumpets, no fanfare,
Just scruffy shepherds and smelly straw,
Noisy animals, the clueless wise.
Was it what You'd expected?

Thirty plus years walking our dirt,
Babies slaughtered in Your honour,
Voices raised in Your defense,
Ears severed for Your sake.
Were we what You'd expected?

Still now, years and births after,
To peace, our hearts and wills no closer,
So though You came then to save and sacrifice,
Perhaps this was less a final answer,
Than a reminder of our still desperate need for rescue,
That to You, we'd not cease looking for.
Maybe You're more than all we'd expected?

Rev. 22: 17, 20

sč
Singapore, December 5th, 2007