Yahweh, You are like chocolate after a long fast Joy after such an endless time of being sad But I have seen what it's like To have windows after living in the dark And now I see the light I am and You are Expansion after being confined Sanity after losing my mind Freedom after being locked away in the dark Faith after living in fear After loneliness, You are here And now we are one. Vision after being so blind No longer worrying all of the time Stepping into new territories Knowing You are near And now I can be me At peace with all I see Knowing You've taken it all and made it redeemed Flowing in purpose, not hiding in pain Knowing You're worth it, I'd do it again Your promises sure and always sustained I am because You are The biggest blessing I've ever known Being able to relate to You as a son Though You're so much bigger than I can perceive You've come in order to relate to me And I know that You love me And I know You ar

Oh! What a marvelous thing To be at peace with your God And yourself.

Redemption is a process, long and drawn out and messy Not at all what you thought it would be, what you signed up for Yet it is beautiful And it happens all at once Redemption is a process, awkward and strange and worrisome Sometimes you wonder if it is even happening at all Or if you just imagined the healing, The growth The peace. And yet there comes a moment in the midst of this inexplicable and wonderful and strange process where you cannot deny the power of the living God in your life, where you not only see the contrast between What was and What is But you see the past and the present and the future and you know that, even though it is a process, it is also completed and you are free Unburdened Unbroken And your past, with all the pain and sorrow, becomes a beautiful thing as all that was bad evaporates And only the good remains Your future, bright upon the horizon, fresh and new, with all the mistakes already atoned for, already counted As your faith meets Yah