Part Of Me.

 

Part of me wants to walk through the desert

Part of me wants to be at the sea

All of me wants to be in the stillness

And all of me be close to Thee.

Hiding, abiding are all that I’m heeding

But should I be placed in a crowd

How would I deal with the noise and the bustle?

Could I even whisper aloud?

Would You then wrap me up in Your Spirit

Help me be quiet and calm?

Safe in Your love and my right to be in it

Do You shield my spirit from harm?

My arms are held out as I feel Your assurance

Is there someone else I can hold too?

Whisper the names of those needing Your Spirit

May I help them climb up into You?

Lord, I want to walk through the desert

Yet I long to stay near the sea

Part of me wants to breathe in the stillness

But sharing the love You pour into me.

Wyn Barratt  March 2013.

I Love The Ocean

O how I love the ocean; fearsome yet gentle too

One day I’ll rest upon it and be carried home to You

Its constancy of surging is my best lullaby

However hard the day may be, the night flows gently by.

It reminds me of Your Spirit You said is always near

To comfort, check, and carry, and wipe away our tears

For all Your life was driven by passion for our God

And you are still beside us, steadying the steps we’ve trod.

A whisper from Your Spirit that comes with every wave

Says ‘Hear Me for I love you; it’s you I came to save’.

The ocean is my healing as it sets my thoughts on You

At night Your love revealing, Your voice still coming through.

 Wyn Barratt March 2013

Put Your Hands On Me.

 

Put Your hands on my weaknesses

Help me to be strong

I’m following Your footsteps Lord

That’s just where I belong

I was twisting and turning

Facing the wrong way

When a light came from heaven

That showed me the way.

Then You looked into my heart Lord

And what did You see?

You saw pain and darkness

As deep as the sea

You knew that my yearning

Would never be filled

Without You came inside of me

And Oh Lord was I thrilled!

You put Your hands on my weaknesses

As I climbed up a wall

I intended to leap it

But feared I might fall

You remembered my darkness

And my need to be filled

You held me up inside Your arms

And Oh, Lord, I was filled!

Would someone put this to music please?

Wyn Barratt

March 2013.

When We Fail

When we fail You, Lord, do we feel that You failed us

By allowing us to sin and fall from Grace?

Does our freedom of choice make us hear the wrong voice

And attraction turns our gaze from Your face?

We may look at Adam and Eve; wonder why they were deceived

Yet that weakness shows its strength many times

Are we no wiser now since our hand’s been on the plough

As we struggle with life’s reasons and rhymes.

Well the answer of course is that in God we have recourse

He will forgive if we truly repent

Our free will is God’s gift to give us an aim and not just drift

He gave us a future and with hope it should be spent.

Wynb. March 2013

Hold My Heart.

Lord I am so glad that I have You

Without You beside me what would I do?

I’d turn this way and that way, what should I do on any day?

Without You beside me what’d I do?

Lord I am so glad you watch my mouth

It’s always been my weakness when I spout

My tongue is so unruly not guarded by yours truly

Without You guard my tongue what’d I do?

Lord I am so glad You hold my heart

It’s so full of love for what You are

When I’m Holy Spirit guided it’s because You are beside me

Without You hold my heart what would I do?

Wyn Barratt March 2013.