Innovative Love

I don't want to make it on my own.
If I ever attempt it, dethrone

My heart of stone, my pride, my vanity.

I'm nothing without you, Lord; refashion me.

All I see in me for all you say I'll be;

And by faith I'll seek what I will someday see.

Gather the scattered parts of me

That I have squandered needlessly.

Can you restore the pieces that fit together?

If you can, Lord, reconstruct me; and tether

My heart to your limitless, innovative love.

My identity is not self-made;

All my efforts to grow up will fade.

But if I trust the potter's gentle hands

I will become a man who understands

That you salvage broken things and make them new.

I am but a set of fragments without you.

Gather the scattered parts of me

That I have squandered needlessly.

Can you restore the pieces that fit together?

If you can, Lord, reconstruct me; and tether

My heart to your limitless, innovative love.

All I see in me for all you say I'll be;

And by faith I'll seek what I will someday see.

© 2021 David Acosta