Welcome to Day 7 of Part 7′s Chapter 3 of Arise and Shine. Today, Anna is bringing forward the final free will offering of Holy Hands.
Love's Open Door
When our hearts
Condemn us
Our confidence
Rests not in self
But the Rock.
In our God
Hiding us all
In Himself
In the cleft
Of the Rock.
For yes, You,
Our mighty deliverer
Lifting our heads
You alone know
All things.
Not one part
Is perfect apart
From Your love
For the
Whole.
In each and every
Valley of accusation
In each and every
Prideful tongue
Waged against
Your rod and your staff
Arise to defend
Your workmanship
Your sovereign
Completion.
Grace in us
Growing
You rest our feet
Upon the
Rock everlasting.
You still
Our hearts
With
But One Word:
Jesus.
Ever returning us
To rest in the light
Your righteousness
Shining
Ever brighter
Till the full
Light of day
For You are ever
Revealing the work
Of Your holy hands.
Yes, there is
A season
For everything
Under the sun
Not one part
Of Your proving
Not one part is void
Of Your life
In holy breath
Holy hands lifting.
For You
Our King of Kings
You have already
Made all things
Beautiful.
Not in our time
But Yours shall we rise
To see in full
What on earth we see
But in part.
Lest any man should
Boast
Even the ashes
Are proof
Of holiness blazing.
Death is but
The birthing ground
Of resurrection
Of new beauty
And life everlasting.
A faith being born again
In the trust of the Son
In the holy hands
Ever shaping and
Moulding us One.
In the God
Who roots us
Ever deeper
In truth
Kissing grace.
The light yoke
Of His labor
Lifting ever higher
The Cross
Not our hands
Or labor
But Christ's
His completed work
In us arising
To shine.
His grace
Knows no bounds
He's ever stretching
The tent pegs
Wider.
Overshadowing
Each treasured part
In mercy covering
His children in tender
Compassion calling
Into His joining
In suffering
To know
His Body
Made whole.
Each vital part
All shall
Yet see
His glory
And fame.
In sons and daughters
On His hip returning
No! Not one star
Is missing
Or gone.
Look up and see
Our God is greater
Behold the Father of Lights
Each star
In love's open door
Christ's revealing.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (ESV) He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Shalom Aleh 
Eternity in the hearts of man… keeps us looking beyond ourselves.
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And in the non-human creation around us too- as your poetry so beautifully reflects.
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Thank you!
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