Written and published by Jean-Louis http://theligthseed.blogspot.com
AUTHOR´S NOTE: I always had difficulty resuming my thoughts, hence I am known among my friends and loved ones as verbose. I prayed and prayed to the Lord to help me for the sake of my writers to be able to be clear and concise. As an answer, he sent me my wife Mirian!!!. True. With her help, I started rediscovering my french heritage, even the beauty of my language that I had hardly spoken for more than 40 years.
With such lovely inspiration, I started writing poems, spiritual poems, and not so “profane” poems. I didn´t expect such a turn of events in my life as the answer to a simple but persistant prayer. I got a double blessing, a wonderful wife and a way to resume my thoughts.
And today, in the early morning, He blessed me again. As I intended to post the poem on FB, A thought came: “Why dont you turn it into a prayer”. Then, I discovered an intentional "leitmotif" running through, reminiscent of a hymn. Cutting most of the middle section and keeping the first and last lines, I discovered that the essential, the beginning and the end, if you will, is found in the Lord Jesus and His Word. And the poem became a prayer and a blessing.
Keep on praying and asking, the Lord will keep on answering and blessing your simple heart cry.
"Better is an open rebuke than hidden love.
When I gaze upon your face,
Your wounds were left open
I, like Ephraim was deceived and bound
Gen
32: 31; Deut 32:39; Psalm 38:1,2,5; 85:10,11; 119:67-71;
Prov: 27:5,6; Jeremias 8:21,22;10:19,20; 14:19; 15:18,19; Hosea
6:1
Jean-Louis.
