Eatin’ Garage

I watched two boys cannonball into a pit of trash

And learned to grieve with God

“Why are you training my eyes?” I asked

He responded.

Uncarefully ambitious

Their fists clenched around ignorance and rotten meat

For ‘food eaten in secret is delicious’1 

I disapprove.

A wall between the children and torment I prayed to be

Fortified with love, discipline supplemented

Repentance will ultimately set them free

Intercession.

‘Who can straighten what He has bent?’2

So foolish desire became unsatisfying

“Lord don’t return my energy spent”

I crave sanctification…

Weary and burdened3, Jesus gave me rest

Unforced symphony of grace I now abide

Fearfully and wonderfully4 blessed

Emerged from the garbage!

1 Proverbs 9:17

2 Ecclesiastes 7:13

3 Matthew 10:28

4 Psalm 139:14