Thursday, March 13, 2014

I Believe You

I need this Lord. I need you to do this for me.
I pour out my heart before you and you hold me.
I rest my head on your chest and you hold me close.
You say, Don't worry my child,
and I believe you.

I believe you want to fill my desires for children
a pregnancy/birth, another adoption.
I believe you when you say,
Where there is no way,
There is a way.

I believe you when you say
you will fill our desires with good things.
I believe you when you say
what father would give a rock
to their child who asks for bread?

I heard you say,
I have plans for you.
Nothing is impossible. 

And I say, let it be Lord!
For your glory!

I love this place with you Papa,
where I can be honest and you tenderly care for me.
I won't give up hoping and believing for this.

I wait and hope for you,
I expect and anticipate you to move,
because you are good
and I believe you.

You have been faithful,
Just look at Michella.

I can't rest until I have more babies
I can't leave this, until it is granted.
Don't deny me this Lord!
I'm not sure I can accept anything else!

You made me this way,
designed my body to give birth,
put a desire, deep and primal, in me to bear a child.
That was your idea.

I feel desperation rising in me
Like Hannah who wept bitterly and cried,
"Remember me, Lord!"

She asked of you and you acted
You came through for her.
Come through for me Lord. 

Like the persistent widow who would not give up,
I will stay here, knocking and waiting
Pressing in...



He gives the barren woman a home
making her the joyous mother of children.
Psalm 113:9


Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be." Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead - since he was about a hundred years old - and that Sarah's womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.
Romans 4:18-21

Poem of Jen #1

There is this desire

a desire for you


at the center of my being


and it often gets buried


and sometimes I'm not aware...
 

I forget, lose touch

with who I am at my core


where desire for you dwells


Spirit help me stay with the knowledge

of who I am

and how much I need you