confession

when life is busy

and the days are full,

when i don't get enough sleep

and gary and i are like ships passing in the night,

when life starts looking like one long list with boxes to check off,

when i neglect to read my bible,

and put aside the habits that keep my heart soft,

i get weird.

and restless.

i start to think about 

tattoos,

number 11,

roads trips and red wine,

gypsy dancing.

 and i get very in the mood for mumford and sons.

...

and although i am confidant all of the above

are really wonderful things (especially gypsy dancing),

i know

today 

my impulses are evidence

of my weary, wandering heart.  

so i breathe deep 

and offer up the following verse from

my favorite hymn:

o to grace how great a debtor
daily i’m constrained to be!
let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
prone to wander, lord, i feel it,
prone to leave the god i love;
here’s my heart, o take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.

then i find the hymn on u tube.

and wouldn't you believe, 

there's even a cover by mumford and sons. 

god is good.