Purify

Darkness and shadow
Smoke and Fire
Your purification
Is my desire

Consuming fire
From ashes to dust
Necessary burning
Eradication a must

Burn out the weeds
The rot and the mold
Burn out the extras
The parts that I've sold

Your fire purifies
The heat it refines
The gold in my heart
The treasure that's mine

My field becomes barren
But only a season
For deep underneath
You have a sweet reason

To overcome weeds
To destroy all the rot
To open the seeds
Of the flowers I've got

To force them to bloom
For all men to see
To give them the room
Lord, come purify me

Take it all away
Burn it all down to dust
Take me, re-make me
However You must

Plant deep in my heart
What You want to see grow
Show me Your heart
Where You want me to go

Foster and prune me
With Your words and Your touch
Consume me, re-bloom me
I want this so much

Recover the barren
With the lilies You grow
With beauty, with honor
With compassion to know

How to help, how to love
How to be set apart
How to foster a love
Like the one in Your heart

How to bleed when they bleed
How to break when they break
And yet how to hold fast
No matter how things shake

To welcome the testing
To look for the gold
To be there with strength
Yet with arms that can hold

On my own I cannot
On my own I am weak
I must draw it out
From the words that You speak

So purify me
Give me all that You have
Come purify me
I want nothing by halves!

(written Oct. 2, 2011 - Northgate Ladies Advance)