the perfect gift

345am 5.2.5
upon my tongue is placed
the world,
freely given,
recieved
unaware.

a moment common
but impossible
can you do this?
I wonder in reflection
to a billion plus
people,
we don't realise
how perfect that moment is

how incredible your grace
your forgiveness
your sacrifice

we just receive
and believe
and thats okay with you?

when we give,
we expect acknowledgement
but you require none
for your gift.

a gift so perfect
it's infinite.
so infinite it's simple
so simple it's humble.

how can we partake
of such greatness
with such unawareness?
353am

more you deserve

what can I give
but my hands typing
my mind thinking
my self being?

how much more You deserve!

can I hope to add
to give
to help?
yet you work still!
of bewilderment,
how much more you deserve!

the sands of my life
are so little
to the good
you work despite me.
of my cooperation,
how much more you deserve!

gracious and gentle master,
who deigns to call
a slovenly, wanton slave.
friend!?!
of love
how much more you deserve!

I've offered before,
and again I do,
for I keep taking it
back from you...
here is my life

how much more you deserve!

Ecce Panis Angelorum

I come before you,
broken and bent,
my head on the ground
my life in your hands

gentle and loving,
every moment I spend
is a moment of true life
If only every second was yours!

in humble package,
exposed
weak, fragile, simple

neither king nor conqueror,
you need us!
cooperation in miraculous wonder
our greatest gift
from you, to each other.

So powerful, so beautiful,
that a moment can change
the hardened heart.
Glimpse and glimmer,
vivify the sorrowing;
incorrigible simplicity,
defeating the wise.

behold the terrible majesty
of our God!
that, humble, he came as bread and babe.