God is good

His grace never fails... His love is overwhelming! I am learning many, many things about myself, who I am in Him, what it means to truly honor and serve Him, and how to walk (and dance) with Him each and every day. What a joy it is to be in communion with Him; not just during the moments of focused prayer and reading His Word, but constantly in fellowship with Him.

Oh Father of Jesus,
Help me to approach thee with deepest reverence,
not with presumption,
Not with servile fear, but with holy boldness.
Thou art beyond the grasp of my understanding,
But not beyond that of my love,
Thou knowest that I love thee supremely,
For thou art supremely adorable, good, perfect.
My heart melts at the love of Jesus,
My brother, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh,
Married to me, dead for me, risen for me;
He is mine and I am his,
Given to me as well as for me;
I am never so much mine as when I am his,
Or so much lost to myself until lost in him;
Then I find my true womanhood.
But my love is frost and cold, ice and snow;
Let his love warm me,
Lighten my burden,
Be my heaven;
May it be more revealed to me in all its influences
That my love to him may be more fervent and glowing;
Let the mighty tide of his everlasting love
Cover the rocks of my sin and care;
Then let my spirit float above those things
Which had else wrecked my life.
Make me fruitful by living to that love,
My character becoming more beautiful every day.
If traces of Christ's love-artistry by upon me,
May he work on with his divine brush
Until the complete image be obtained
And I be made a perfect copy of him, my master.
O Lord Jesus, come to me.
O Divine Spirit, rest upon me.
O Holy Father, look on me in mercy for the sake of the well-beloved.

from The Valley of Vision