Grace, Oh I Get it

"It is not falling in the water that drowns us, but staying there."

By grace I unveil
shame like steam from crimson
burnt branches
once smoldering then doused
by tears of compassion

By grace I rise
from stark wrongdoing
to circling caress,
her smoky whisper, "I still
love you. Don't ever forget."

I had a realization that to have Christ live in me is not about clothing myself in the costume of Christianity and pretending, but rather it is surrender...Disclose and de-clothe to raw vulnerability, ask forgiveness and begin again, naked and new, every day.