Grace Left me Scarred || 2009.01.06

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2009.01.06
Grace Left me Scarred


Grace left me scarred.
But what did we expect after grace found me
so dead I was no longer bleeding.
I was raised in resurrection,
and the hurt began to heal,
the cleansing kind of burned, the infection
was pretty deep and still bites back sometimes,
but grace still leads me on.
There is sensitivity to things I did not know exist,
the voice of God, the sound of His breath...
and things that ultimately injured me,
even their thought is pain.
So it feels like even in brokenness
there is perfection.
A kind of reminder of what has past,
a sign of what is built to come.
So there is a scar reminding me of death,
showing me I'll one day be whole,
telling me of the grace-brought redemption,
and slowly healing
in the touch of my Lord.

~JLB

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