Restore Us

22 Aug 2024 | Church | 0 comments

Where our walls

Are broken down

Rebuild us God

Where streets

Are neither safe nor sound redeem

Rekindle fires of once strong praise

Rebound your joys in tone and phrase

From ancient stones of walls

Once raised for you…

 

Return

Messiah King

Let these stones sing

Restore

Strong Son of love

Let these bones live

Rework the threads of tangled lives

Reweave them into grace

Redress disgrace

Reassemble the dismembered

May we remember who we are

 

Gerard Kelly, ‘I see a New City’,

 

 

 

 

Notes from the Compiler

Subtitled: ‘Poems of Place and Possibility’. Gerard Kellly lives in France, where he and his wife lead The Bless Network (www.blessnet.eu). He writes, ‘Pour out wisdom to saturate my soul, God. Infiltrate my every intention. May I know your thoughts as a sponge knows water: your desires as a Dyson knows dust….’

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