Without Complaint
I cannot heal without complaint.
Teach me, O Lord, to lament well so that I
vulnerably lay grief open before your sovereignty
and intimately know the labor pains of my reality.
I cannot heal without complaint.
Teach me, O Lord, to lament well so that I
vulnerably lay grief open before your sovereignty
and intimately know the labor pains of my reality.
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Wrinkled, unkempt, weary.
Sometimes, the sluggishness of despair,
refuses to stumble out of bed, prepare, or
repair you.
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