This week we launch our fourth animated reading. The next five weeks of blog posts will draw from themes in this poem. If you like the video, please share with others.
The Crowning
There once was a crown.
Upon the head of God it was worn
So by love for the world
Would freedom be born –
Through a crown
Made only of thorns.
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God set a standard
From the earliest of time,
The freedom and life
He’s delivered to us
Though free to receive is
Quite costly indeed.
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It cost him his life, and so too for us.
To him I surrender, regardless the price.
Your will not mine
Is my sacrifice.
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So along with the Psalmist
This prayer in my heart
Shall daily be born –
“Change me O Lord, every part —
And I, like you too, shall
Welcome my thorns.”
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Revive me my God.
Restore me my Friend.
Breathe upon my empty soul
Until I’m alive to your love once again.
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You are patient. You are kind.
When I stray, your love is relentless
When I return, your forgiveness complete.
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This is mercy in its severest form
Your gracious fire to purge my soul
Of the sinful stain that would not go.
Your Holy Spirit to raise me up
From the cords of death and loss of hope.
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Oh thank you! Thank You my God!
You have not left me alone.
For today in your truth I’ve found mercy and grace
So that holiness of heart finds its prominent place.
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So along with the Psalmist
This prayer in my heart
Shall daily be born –
“Change me O God, every part
And I, like you too,
Shall welcome my thorns.”
This poem has been adapted from the poem by the same name in, David Trementozzi, Light for the Dark Night: Embracing a Heart of Holy Desperation (Maitland, Fl.: Xulon, 2005).
