I Am…

John 1:12 “But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God”

John 15:15-16 “I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the father told me. 16 I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.

I am generous and sensitive

I wonder how nature and nurture

Intersect

I hear ghost of laughter

Echo off the hills

I see faded memories come to life

I want my life to glorify God

I am generous and sensitive

I pretend to be confident

I feel my grandmother’s hands

Playing “Run About”

Upon my youthful back

I touch hope like fire

I worry that I will feel

Too much

I cry at the time lost to eating disorders, neuralgia

And beer commercials

I am generous and sensitive

I understand that I belong to God and not myself

Nor eating disorders or pain

I say to my children “just be enough for yourselves

The rest will rise out of your truth”

I dream my voice will glorify God

I try to do the next right thing

I hope to share my journey; That my life will matter

I am generous and sensitive

1Corinthians 15:10 (NIV) “but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them-yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.”