Little Prayers From Little People

Little prayers from little people
Not from strong or mighty hands
Not from power or from greatness
But from children with a prayer

Little prayers from little people
Oh when God will show the world
How he moved the coursing rivers
At these small and humble words

Little prayers from little people
If only we could see
When they send their requests to God
He changes history

Little prayers from little people
We only see the strong
We see the steady pastor
But not the rock he's on

Weak old women will need help
Little children must be served
But what they offer up to God
Is the glue that binds the Church

Little prayers from little people
Find their way to Mighty God
And when he shows them to the strong
With tear-filled eyes they'll thank them.

Undeserved Grace

As humans, we presume on grace

We sin and bank on changing

We think that God is in our hands

A card we plan on playing

When trials grow too heavy

As God, He knows our every heart

He sees just what we're doing

Although He knows our wicked plans

He still keeps on renewing

Our hearts to be as broken

As we planned for them to be

The Lord is not our puppet

Although we may presume on grace

He still gives it so freely

We make demands and test the Rock

And to our great surprise

Despite our tainted asking

The water ever-flows

God does not leave his people dry

To prove their lowly motives

But in the wake of boundless love

We see the fools we are

His plan has come to pass

His children have returned;

In shame they wish they had not left

With silenced lips they thank Him. 

Eternal Resurrection

Reflections on the Resurrection: 

“It is a serious thing...to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics...It is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splenders."

- C. S. Lewis

"An hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out; those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the ressurection of judgment." 

- John 5:28b-29