And Then The New Begins To Grow

 

 But the hair on his head

    began to grow again

after it had been shaved.

            Judges 16. 22

(Samson was not perfect

      by any means,

        nor are any of us.

Yet we are not defined

    by our failures or sin,

            but forgiven.

God redeems

    when we come to Him.

That is how God's grace

        enters in,

not by what we deserve,

but how He transforms us.

And then

  the new begins to grow.)

O LORD,

Help us to not dwell

   on what has been,

how we have wounded

and how we

    have been wounded.

We are not just sorry,

   but realize Your forgiveness.

You have already begun

      to redeem.

Let our lives

   begin to grow again.

Help us to be faithful to You.

           Starting now,

Even in what is before us

              today,

You show us another way

                  through.

And give us Your strength

    to be faithful to You in it.