Rescue Me

'Adonai'
breathes my spirit

'Rescue me and know my shame'
for I am low and teeming evermore
to know the power of your resurrection.

Find me in my depths,
crying, for I just received my prize.
I found my glory in the
faces of the others,
who held me in contempt of fraud.

'That's not who you are!'
they kept telling me,
pulling me, pushing me
into disaster.


Tender refuge is found in the
plentitude of peace.

In my weakness I am made strong
and turbulence finds a resting place.

No longer does the storm brew-
it serves to only disrupt the
parchments of gladness.
And not even they can bear to rip
me of tenderness and providence.

I know the hearts of youth.
How they seek first love
and then laughter.
I know the ways in which they
strive for more -
for meaning and wantedness.


In the ocean we wait calmly,
knowing that soon
our savior will come.

Amen.