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This Place Poem / Apr 14, 09:59 AM
This Place Part 1
10/9/08
This place is harder than I ever could have imagined
This place brings back memories of where I’ve been
This place is covered scars of wounds too deep to show
This place in so many ways is all I’ve ever known
This place is full of roads cracked, broken, and battered
This place is full of kids who never knew they mattered
These kids on this road today don’t know another way
This place is the final destination for a road lined with pain
This place is hopelessness and it always comes alone
Imagine this place is the only thing you ever saw at home.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11
This Place Part 2
4/9/08
I will follow you with reckless abandon
I will grab the children by the hands and
Teach them to follow me as I follow you
That is, until their own faith is true
No longer will this place be the ruler of lives
No longer will darkness make us run and hide
This place shall no longer be a shackle on our heart
We will take the first steps though they are the hardest to start
No longer shall people cry themselves to sleep
No longer should past failures be something that we keep
They should be brushed off, then thrown to the fire
For following Christ should be our hearts’ only desire
This place shall no longer be the same place we call home
No longer shall lives be lived out all alone
No one to talk to and no one to teach
No one to touch and no one to reach
We are the hands people, we are the feet
It’s our job to show love to every person we meet
So people of God stand up and take arms
No longer will hopelessness be allowed to do harm
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