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Poem by Me


 So I've been reading lots of blogs, and watching lots of spoken word.
 I've come up with new ideas and was reminded to keep God first.


 I always knew writing and expressing was my calling.
 I didn't know how He'd use it so I started to write.
 To write about experiences and all HE has done.
 To tell you about my life and the things HE made right.
 Not to brag about me as if I did it alone, but to point you to Christ, the one who died for me and for you,
 so that we wouldn't have to.

 Its a matter of life or death and I need to warn you.
 You're headed nowhere fast and your chances of dying are 1 out of 1.
 You need to know there is more to life than what you've been living.
 Salvation is free, His grace, love and mercy,
 You can be forgiven.
 I don't know what else He will do with my life,
 but I want to continue about Him to write.
 I don't want to place limits on what He could do.
 His thoughts are higher, His plans are better.
 I want to be used and I want to love YOU...

 I want you to see a story of grace, a person so broken and full of mistakes
 who experienced betrayals and lots of heartbreaks.
 But who was changed one day when offered a second chance.
 She didn't have to be what she had been, or keep on the same path.
 I was loved for I was, what I'd been and could become.
 He loved me so freely and repaired my heart.
 Changed my mind and my life, and set me apart.

 You too can experience a love so great....
 you come as you are and you won't leave the same.
 His love for you conquered it all.
 He sent his Son to die for you, and rise on the third day
 So not even death could separate.
 He loved you then, He loves you now
 He's waiting, He's calling you out of the crowd.

 Once you make the decision to accept Him in your heart,
 that's where YOUR story of grace and redemption can start!
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