Heart Beats

The heart of the matter
Is the matter of your heart.
Who does your heart beat for?
Who does it adore as each day starts?

What condition is your heart in?
Have you had an EKG (Experience Knowing God)?
Has your heart been pumping
Enough TLC (Trust, Love, Compassion)?

Take a look inside;
Stop and listen for the sounds.
Is your heart a place
Where God’s love abounds?

Has your heart been broken?
Have your dreams begun to shatter?
There is One who understands;
He gets down to the heart of the matter.

If your heart is weak in any way
Let the Great Heart Healer touch you today.
His forgiveness will cleanse you through & through;
Only His love and mercy will make your heart new.

Count your blessings, name them one by one.

When I stop to add up what God has done,

I can’t only figure the sum.

God’s blessings are so numerous each day that I’m alive

As He continues to love, provide and strengthen me,

His blessings multiply!

Blessed by the love of a husband who cares

Blessed with close family and the memories we share

Blessed with children – my bundles of joy

Abundantly blessed – two girls and three boys!

Blessed with great friends who are always so dear

Blessed with church family, when I call they are near

Blessed with a Creator who knows me by name

Blessed with a Savior who died for my sin and shame

Blessed by the Spirit who fills me to overflowing

Who molds and shapes me to always keep me growing

Blessed by a merciful God who is my best friend

His blessings will continue to the very end!

 

 

Oh, Author of my life, all that I am, from beginning to end,

Dip your pen in the ink of your everlasting love and boundless mercy.

Continue the work that you have begun in me.

The parchment has been dry and in need of your touch.

Continue writing the words that I need to read and believe so very much.

My own pen and paper have remained unused for quite some time.

But all the while you have been gently dabbing and writing line after line.

You write my deepest desires and longings. You even create the dreams that I dream.

How do I know?  Your Word says you created the deepest part of me.

Even when I am blocked from putting my thoughts into print,

You have never stopped writing, not even for a minute.

 I must always stop to edit and proof what I write down.

Yet Your work is so perfect and always so sound.

You take your time to write out each word, thought or phrase.

It’s Your awesome love and great faithfulness that have me so amazed.

Sometimes I’m frightened of what I might see written by my hand on the page.

But You do not fear the words.  You are confident, always.

I have much to learn from the Author of life.

You write and create in so many ways.

 You are the writer of the script of my days.

You arrange the sonnet, each note, verse and line.

You choose the instruments and compose harmonies all beautifully intertwined.

 You write my story complete with illustrations inside,

And so intricately form the details of my life.

Just when I think I’ve discovered the entire plot,

You rearrange setting and characters and turn it different from what I thought.

You are the Master Author, Composer and Arranger of my life.

You are the One who sets the stage

Or who writes the notes upon the page.

You know each twist and turn along the way.

I want to be faithful to follow the part I am to play.

 Even when I can’t feel You working, I know You are there,

Writing your faithful love and tender mercy on my life everywhere.

Just as You continue my story and song,

May I continue to write the gratitude and praise that You deserve all along.

I am so thankful for Your work in me from the start.

And I’m blessed to know that You will always be writing on the tablet of my heart.