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THE ROCK POOL

29/1/2021

the rock pool
by Anne Lee

all these years I have sought
this place among shadowed trees,
this rock pool of clear waters
in which the sunlight passing over
flecks the dark depths
to lucid life

lost in the wild weathered years
of my searching
this sanctuary waited,
patient with dreams,
older than stories I followed
for a way back
to what I knew

here beside you now I remember
and accept, a child again,
how tranquility can enfold,
softening the harshness, quietening
the panic of many misdirections

before night falls
let me in this sheer moment be
a drinker at your sweet waters
carry with me this smile
you reflect as you return
to me what I had,
a home

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This week's theme was inspired by Jonathan Ogden's 'Always on My Mind'. I've loved his music for a long time now, and I especially loved this newer release because of how he spoke of a relationship with God with such lighthearted candour and wonder.

ALWAYS ON MY MIND
Jonathan Ogden

Stop, see the sun
Hear, listen to the sound of the water
Rain, rain or shine
You are always on my mind

And light
Light is dancing through the trees
Sunlight pouring down on me
Suddenly, wrapped in perfect peace
Now that you've made your home in me

I see the Son
Watch, the thunder and flashes of lightning
Clothed in blinding light
I'm lost in beauty never-ending

I want to walk with you
All of my days, yeah I
I want to walk with you
For all of my days
You are shining like the stars above
Brighter than a thousand suns
Yeah that's who you are
You are closer than the closest friend
Friendship that will never end
Yeah, that's who you are, oh I
I want to walk with you

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FROM SEED TO SEQUOIA

8/1/2021

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I stopped listening to Hillsong's 'Seasons' last year because the lyrics that used to encourage me became stings to my weary heart. I had grown tired of waiting for a deliverance from my circumstance that hope had eventually died in me. On the first day of this year, I sat before God and laid it all down. I prayed for hope to arise within me again, and for a joyful surrender over helpless resignation. So I choose this song for the first theme of the year, in hopes that it will encourage you in your season of waiting, if indeed you are waiting at all.

SEASONS
Hillsong

Like the frost on a rose
Winter comes for us all
Oh how nature acquaints us
With the nature of patience
Like a seed in the snow
I've been buried to grow
For Your promise is loyal
From seed to sequoia

I know
Though the winter is long even richer
The harvest it brings
Though my waiting prolongs even greater
Your promise for me like a seed
I believe that my season will come

Lord I think of Your love
Like the low winter sun
And as I gaze I am blinded
In the light of Your brightness
And like a fire to the snow
I'm renewed in Your warmth
Melt the ice of this wild soul
Till the barren is beautiful

I can see the promise
I can see the future
You're the God of seasons
And I'm just in the winter
If all I know of harvest
Is that it's worth my patience
Then if You're not done working
God I'm not done waiting
You can see my promise
Even in the winter
Cause You're the God of greatness
Even in a manger
For all I know of seasons
Is that You take Your time
You could have saved us in a second
Instead You sent a child

Like a seed You were sown
For the sake of us all
From Bethlehem's soil
Grew Calvary's sequoia

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