Lord God

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Lord  God, I'm opening my heart to you.
Spent my weekend with a bottle of wine.
Not your blood I was drinking.
Drowning my life in a drunken haze.
Emptied bottles lying on the floor.
  
Lord God, I let the emptiness become me.
Filling my heart with broken images,
of remembered people I used to love.
Of places I used to live in
happier times...
  
Lord God, I don't feel you inside.
I've let the world become my home.
Let the enemy open the cells of lost.
I wandered this room in a blur
of foggy metaphors. Wrote
in anger the hatred I felt inside.
  
Lord God, I need Your love to heal.
I need to once again feel the presence
of my salvation; to read again words
from your Blessed Scriptures. Let them
comfort me as they did before.
  
Lord God, everything seems hopeless now.
My upside down life is tattered and torn.
My vision is blocked by thoughts of
anger and death. I'm as distraught
as a human male can be.
  
Lord God, nothing seems to be working out.
Isn't this the point where I can meet you?
  
Lord God, Lord Jesus, come.......

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Published in "Catholic Voices" March 1997

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