Your Ending is the Beginning by Leah

Some pasts are dark
Some filled with fury and hate
Some of utter shame
Some lost in fear and pain
Some a single step away from hell
While locked in the mind’s prison cell

Who you were is not who you have become

Countless times too many to name
Would have given anything to let go of blame
Lived through many disappointments
Disappointments of others and of self

Crying out nightly from bad dreams
Waking up in sheer terror
Left once again confused and in pain

As a child prone to sleep walk in the night
Always full of fear running in flight
Running away from what?  The “Boogie man”, of course
Only to be shaken awake with a stern hand

Fatherless
Friendless
Hours and hours per day spent alone

Read thousands of books as a means to escape
Escape to warm, colorful, peaceful places
Those that promised adventure and fun
Anything to hide from a life of no Son

Now…

Love to dance
Love to sing
Love to give
Love to serve

 Hopes once again
Aware of His many promises

Suffers through anger by smiling
Laughs instead of crying
Gives to others when in need
What?  She acts like her Father?

Finally found the One who could save me

He loves and doesn’t judge me
He encourages

He is gracious and kind
He is generous
I have become a Gift by the Life Giver

Now it’s clearly seen who I was always meant to be….

Who you were is not who you have become

“…He who builds a road right through the ocean, who carves a path through pounding waves.  He who summons horses and chariots and armies–they lie down and then can’t get back up; they are snuffed out like so many candles:  ‘Leah‘, forget what has happened; do not keep going over old history.  Be alert, be present.  I am about to do something brand-new.  It is bursting out!!!  Can you not see it?

THERE IT IS!!!  Swoosh…

I am making a road through your deserts, rivers in the badlands of your life.  Wild animals like the coyotes and buzzards will “Thank you”, because I provided water in the desert, rivers through the sun-baked earth, drinking water for ‘Leah‘, for I made ‘her‘ especially for myself, a people custom-made to praise me….”  ISAIAH 43:16, 18-19

© 2016 Leah Jennings

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