Little Broken Pot (LIC Retreat)

I wrote this to friends the week of Thanksgiving after returning from a retreat:

This weekend was intense especially on an emotional level to say the least for me. I personally saw myself and others transformed this weekend before my eyes! Praise Abba for his mercy and faithfulness to his beloveds. I wanted you all to know that I have been praying for you by name on a near daily basis for weeks now on and will continue to do so; I deeply feel called to keep our community in prayer ... and so ... if there is something specific you would like for me to pray for you, please email me or call.

For those of you that were in my small discussion group, know that I will be sending you an email to get to know me better since I was just overwhelmed during our time together. I know I didn't say a whole lot this weekend, but I wrote a lot. I offer you a poem from Saturday that I wrote and a song that I wrote back during the UES/LIC retreat back in March which is where my journey getting to know you all more intimately began.

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Little Broken Pot

Little broken pot

you were perfectly created and
are beautiful
But time had come to
smash you and
join you with the other broken pots
Once a lovely clay pot
now you are millions of colorful tiles
each one added carefully,
full of love to the others,
and so becoming
a timeless tile mosaic
that takes the Artist's breath away,
enamored by the beauty
and joyfully mindful of the
individual worth and need for every single tile
in the priceless living creation.



There's A New Song In My Heart

There's a new song in my heart today,

a song of freedom and of love.

A song birthed out of broken understanding

of who my King is and of what He's done.

A song that calls me to love and forgive

no matter how I've been wronged.

A song that bids me to let all else go

and simply awaken to my Father's gentle voice.

"Restore us, O God; make your face shine upon us,

that we may be saved." (Psalm 80.3)