Anxious to please

We are anxious – not for perceptions
 of having to do this or that
but for want, desire
Free to be open to the needs
of our every neighbor
Free to see beyond ourselves
Free to see beyond
shades of gray
and into the light
where Christ,
in whom we seek completeness,
dwells.

We seek, yet we refuse
Christ is The One
yet we fail to recognize Him
we fail to recognize
needs all around us
we fail to recognize,
fail to comprehend,
fail to understand

He is the one who gives us
strength and endurance
to go on
He is the one who embraces
us, calms our inner fears,
is loving and merciful,
filled with compassion
in our distress

He is the one who protects us,
guides us, instructs us
as we travel the roads of life,
endless steps that often
seem to go nowhere.
He is the one who judges
and punishes us
to return us to Him
when we have sinned,
when we have come against

Him, who knows far better
than us what  we ourselves need.

He is The One.

To Him we owe our love
and obedience and trust
Not because we have to,
but because we want to,
we desire to
We are anxious to please Him.
We belong to Him.

He is My Savior
I am His child.

© August 22, 2012