My Testimony

I felt moved to compose this.  It's all true.  I hope it is a benefit to any that reads it.


I know you today but it wasn’t always the case
You were the gun that went off at the start of my race
As a child I heard great stories of you
Grand tales of heroes almost too good to be true
A little boy once asked you to be his best friend
To be saved from the world, how else to begin
For a time I walked with you, would run and would play
Then I grew up and you watched as I went my own way
Your existence I doubted, the musings of a child
My life was my own, nothing bad or too wild
When others would speak of their time in your presence
I would listen but truth is I hadn’t witnessed your essence
Those who carried your name made themselves a bad case
To the outside looking in in need of your grace
I remember the day I claimed you weren’t real
To my mother over Mexican food in the middle of our meal
But loved me you did through the worst of my mess
Despite my pride, my failures, and overwhelming stress
You waited for me to come back to your arms
At a beast and fowl dinner where I said what’s the harm
The first one to speak as we finished our food
Was the leader of the house who was not very cool
He embodied my grievances against the whole foolish posse
They tried all pretense to be spotless and glossy
His message was tired, dusty, and old
And affirmed why our relationship had grown dead and ice cold
The one who followed was the one who stood out
The words on his tongue addressed all my doubt
He spoke of you in the world and what you had done
For the people who were left starving and shunned
As he spoke of his experience with inspired glee
I heard your clear voice speak “This is how it should be”
It was then that I had felt what I lacked all these years
The knowledge you were real all but brought me to tears
Immediately I asked for your saving forgiveness
In hope that there was more in my life than transgressions
From that day forth you have never left my side
Even though I still mess up you take me in stride
With you in my life I can’t imagine much else
Every time that I stumble, it is you that gives help
I thank you and love you for saving me that day
When you picked me up and showed me the way