Dry Leaves
Sunset Worship
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In the beginning You were full of promise But it was only that not enough time had passed And you had not yet learned the art of the excuse I waited here, under the tree you planted But your promises are floating to the ground like autumn leaves All the bigness and green of spring and summer leached away You know, you say I've seen your mound of broken promises in the backyard Well, I say Who gave you permission to go digging around There is a reason they are locked up Back there I don't have to see that mountain 'Cause how could I even begin to glue those leaves back on the tree There we sit. Me counting the leaves as they fall You sizing your pile up against mine Going nowhere Humans trading green promises that turn brown before we can cash them in Another leaf falls Frail with no water to feed it And another leaf falls Dry and translucent like a sun bleach poster Advertising a poetry reading no one heard Are Your promises like that, Lord Made in the ancient days Copied and translated Printed and reprinted Decomposing with each pass Fading on onion skin paper So thin it's hard to see Let alone keep them Or follow through Jesus do You remember where You left me I put my hand down on the frigid autumn sidewalk And damp leaves stick to my hands Are these Your promises Soaking up the water they craved In the days before they dried up and fluttered down No. This wet stack of leaves aren't Your promises They look more like they have my handwriting on them Yours...are different I remember the heartbeat that stopped in Jesus' chest I remember the heartbeat that began again I remember the hundreds of promises I remember the hundreds of years You worked behind the scenes to put yourself up on the cross And rehydrate the hope that was parched and lifeless Oh Lord, You know You know how I feel waiting, sitting here on the sidewalk alone The ground is hard and cold and made of concrete It hurts to be here but You know Your stone seat came with a rock blocking the exit Blocking the light, blocking Your father's voice And still, You never forgot You never forgot Noah, on that stinking, cacophonous, holy boat You never forgot Joseph, or Paul stashed away in prison cells You never forgot Daniel in the living room of hungry lions You never forget the ones in the fire They waited And all the while You remembered them like a precious treasure hidden away Waiting it's turn We waited, we thought we had been left behind But no, we never slipped Your mind Not for a minute, or a single second Your promises were never drying and fading Your promises are crafted from holy covenants Your promises are etched into the fiber of our being Your promises were never the leaves to begin with They are the water Washing away the temporary travesties Your promises a sea I can set sail on They rehydrate and heal my terrified soul and weary bones They rehydrate my brittle and bitter heart My hope has no business being set on the promises of my brother Or in my power to keep all those leaves together. For ALL the promises of God find their YES in Christ Cause You have never once Dropped the ball Or forgot where You parked the car You fill our cup You wash us clean So through him I say my amen Let it be so To the Glory of God
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