Thursday, January 28, 2010

Cardboard Trappings

When all our carefully laid plans

Our tissue paper walls of security and future

Collapse like a tower made of cards

There oh Lord, You promise we will find Your strength


When all that the world says you need

All that they label 'responsible', 'normal', and 'right'

Falters in the space of a heartbeat

And all the truth leaks out of the inked in lines we drew

You remind us that real truth

Is found only in You


The plans for good

To help us and not harm

You decorate them in modest trappings

So unlike the glistening, colorful wrappings the world would use

And You assure us that the glitter, and even the gold beneath

Is not the real worth, or even much of a treasure

But what is of lasting value, is You


-Kaylie

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