Surrender

Surrender

Enlightenment is lazy stuff,

Its simple mind I must rebuff,

Its only pow’r to rip and rend,

Its banner flag a huge dead end.

Whoo, whoo, let’s rally to that hill,

Depression mounts I’ll take that pill,

I’ve visited the gates of Hell,

All bent and broke my spirits fell.

In shower naked on my knees,

And, shaking, sobbing with my pleas,

“Okay, my LORD your will not mine”,

“My life is yours with your design”.

A very scary prayer is this!

Surrender me to blind abyss?

An instant grand the power I felt,

Throughout my being where I knelt!

This power was Jesus’ not my own,

Pure intellect was over thrown,

I felt all whole with power divine!

True life with God and Christ is mine!

My life now filled with God’s pure love,

In red spring flow’r; blue sky above,

And, every child that laughs with glee,

It’s God’s creation that I see!

Peter Lowell Paulson

March 26, 2014