3.28.2012

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,
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.

3 comments:

  1. god is good indeed. my goodness mama. thanks for sharing. keep that chin up. (xo)

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  2. sigh. and what would the rest of us do without your words? you spoke directly to my heart. blessings, mama. big, big blessings.

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  3. Blog stalker that found you through Elissa coming out of the wood works to say thanks for this. I hear you on the whole mood for Mumford piece, and you so clearly put words to my own restlessness.

    Thank you.

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