outstretched

Lord, I believe - help my unbelief.
I come with outstretched hands,
so aware of their trembling -
knowing their frailty and their
cruelty, their tenderness and
their thoughtlessness.

Awash with the awareness
of all that needs changing
within me, and asking you
to work another miracle in me,
transforming and moulding,
making me sparkle again.

Take all that is broken and
wrong; cleanse the muddy
and the murky, the feeble
and the false, and all
my unwillingness to make
an effort to change.

I turn around,
turn my face towards you.
Forgive. Restore. Renew.
Create in me a pure heart
as I follow this path, learning
to be your disciple.

forgiveness

I've haven't really got around to making something properly for the current Salt Challenge - so in the end I made this simple photo card. This is another photograph I took in Pembrokeshire last year - sunset over the beach at Freshwater West. The photo of the card isn't quite true to the actual colours but you get the idea.

Although I've not made much, I did find myself thinking about the theme of forgiveness a lot since I first read the challenge. Thinking of ways of how I could express something naturally makes me think about it more in general - so that in itself is constructive.