Fallen and Lifted Up

I was walking along the road minding my own business when I fell

I didn’t realise my own inability to restrain my fall

Down I went to the gutter of despair

Down I went to the free fall of despair and regret

Yet I wake in the morning to your voice calling me

I wake to your love

In the middle of it I see you calling me, James come, eat and dine with me

I wake to your gentle embrace, to your call, come eat and dine in my house

I wait patiently for you to arrive in all your glamour, yet I find simple word of I love you

I see you standing there in the midst of turmoil in peace

You walk with determination towards me

You walk in the middle of great love

And as I wait here for you to seat me at your table

There I am in the midst of your embrace

There I am singing your praise

“Don’t forget your call my son

Don’t leave it way seeking and lost to the calling”

“I will always see you open to my heart”; I hear him say,

“I will open up heaven’s door to you today.

For even as you walk in the middle of great love

Even as you walk in the midst of pain

My heart will comfort and strengthen you

I will overcome with the blood of my son, Jesus.

Cos my heart is fond of you,

I will call out your name among the saints,

See my word will comfort you child

I will again comfort you.”

So even in the midst of my suffering and pain

Even in my sorrow and shame

I will walk with you, Lord most high

I will follow you my King in the mist of pain.

Cos as a child weaned from his mother is told to eat

So, my heart is fond of your word

So, I eat off your bread and die to selfish gain.

Photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash

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