Clean Slate

Stumbling through tasks
only ending secluded;
removed from Your love
here I fall.
When all I look to is
my face in the mirror,
what I have now
is nothing at all.

Moments we pass in our haste
show right through us.
When push comes to shove,
we're all lost.
The blackness inside me
is all the more clear.
Change, now,
requires a cost.

Nothing more simple,
You took more than bruises--
my future the goal
in Your mind.
Your focus and sacrifice
leading me through this--
my old life is now
left behind.

Showered by grace, I'm
accepting Your mercy
to the deepest dark space
of my heart.
Nothing more telling,
my rot was uprooted.
Founded on faith,
my new start.

Clean Slate by Jennifer Lewis