When You see my family,
are You pleased with us?
Search our hearts
and right our wrongs.
Only You can see
how blind we can be.
We let the walls build
and shelter up behind
these walls of stone.
We live as prisoners
to our own fears,
defeated by ourselves.
Those strange walls we build
at first are so dark
but we let them sit and stand
as tall as they want
and they become our homes,
they become our shelter.
We sweep the dirt under
and cover it up,
hoping that it will remain
quiet, still, unnoticed.
We say we do all this
for the sake of our family,
to preserve our ties,
to "move on."
But are our our motives
really selfless? Or have we
tricked ourselves?
The stench of what's rotting
will always surface
even from the inside.
Then, it will be Your hands
that cleanse and correct
all that is dirty, all that is wrong.
We can not hide for long,
can not disguise our wrongs.
Your light will bring truth
and unveil the darkness
to show us we were all fools:
petty, naive, prideful, and scared.
You will bring forth
all that we've buried.
You will uncover
all that we've hid.
All to show us
just how small
those problems were
compared to
Your Grace,
Mercy, and
Love.
Amen.
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