You are bringing me back to You again
To when I first gave You my whole heart
In exchange You gave me a fresh start
Igniting from within my cold, dark, empty heart,
a love for You which burns within this sacred part
Along with resurrecting the gift of poetry
As it flows out, sometimes uncontrollably
Bringing me back from the death grip of the grave
and making me no longer its slave.
You are bringing back the beauty of Your creation,
With a new and clear direction.
Only You have the immense power to birth life from death,
light from darkness, healing from pain, and joy from depression.
And You do it all by Your Holy Spirit, in just one breath.
This road that You used to bring me back here
was polluted with the pain of loss, rejection, and betrayal.
Where I loathed my broken mind and my destructive, repeated behavior.
Along with a nagging question, “How did I get here?”
This dark road caused me to sink into deep despair
where satan almost had me, causing every ounce of my will to live to quickly disappear.
Today in deep reflection,
I ask myself this one question.
Was it worth it?
To have traveled down this dark, painful, lonely road?
Where I carried a back-breaking and soul-crushing load.
Warm tears start streaming down my face.
Feeling a love in my heart, which defies explanation
and a joy that no one or nothing can ever replace.
I answer yes, it was worth it, and I would travel down it again.
Simply because this dark, painful, and lonely road
has brought me back to You, my first love, again.
By,
Jeff Dalton
