Category: Poetry

  • From the mountains to the valley

    From the mountains to the valley
    Your river runs deep and wide,
    Surrounds me, sustains me
    Oh how I need you
    To you, I lift up my soul

    Like a tree planted beside still waters
    You refresh, nourish this soul
    The giver of life, the gardener and the vine
    Oh how I need you
    To you, I lift up my soul

    From the mountains to the valley
    Your river runs deep and wide
    Thirsty for more, thirsty for you
    Oh how I need you
    To you, I lift up my soul

    From the seasons of winter into spring
    Your river gives life, refreshes my soul
    Hungry for more, hungry for you
    Oh how I need you
    To you, I lift up my soul.

    From the mountains to the valley
    Your river runs deep and wide
    Bringing new life, healing deep wounds
    Oh how I need you
    To you, I lift up my soul

    One thing I ask, this is what I seek
    To dwell in this house
    And gaze upon your beauty
    All the days of my life
    One thing I ask, this is what I seek
    To dwell in this house
    Seeking you, in your temple
    All the days of my life

    Come Holy Spirit come
    Do what only you can do
    In our city, in our nation
    Restore hope
    Restore love
    Restore joy
    Restore peace
    Bring new life

    Come Holy Spirit come
    Do what only you can do
    In our city, in our nation
    Bring light into the darkness
    Bring life into bareness
    Bring hope to hopelessness
    Bring peace into chaos

    Come Holy Spirit come
    It’s your presence
    That we seek
    Awaken us.

    [Inspired by Psalms 1, 25, 27 & 84]

  • I wait for you

     

    In the waiting
    In the watching
    In the stillness of this hour

    I come
    I long for you
    I wait for you

    With all of my brokenness
    With all of my emptiness
    With all of my loneliness

    I come
    I long for you
    I wait for you

    Here in this place, I find you

    Not in the wind
    Nor in the fire
    But with a gentle whisper

    Like a trickle
    Within a breeze
    Your presence comes

    Around me
    Upon me
    Within me

    You whisper words

    That bring peace
    That bring hope
    That bring love

    It’s here, I have found You

    In the stillness
    In the quietness
    In the beauty of this place

    Your peace, like a river
    So deep and so wide
    Fills every space and every void

    Jesus, I come.

    I wait for You.

    It’s here, I desire to linger.