Amazing Grace

It has been too long

Since your voice was heard

Tenseness asks

To let go again

How Sweet the sound

Wild noise surrounds our

Failure to listen

Your whisper

Contained to silence

That saved a wretch

By choice we decide

To see or not see

Waiting for

What’s here all along

Like me

Understanding your presence

Embodies peaceful

Abundance

Even in chaos

I once was lost

Despair covets the

Heart of our matter

Forgetting

How far we have come.

But now am found

Remembering soon

Brings understanding

I seek you

Even in darkness

Was blind

Recognition failed

As clouds covered help’s

Compassion

Where love awaits us

But now I see

Eyes open or closed

Your softness welcomes

Light once more

A welcome presence

Amazing Grace once more

Inspired by a conversation with a friend in August that brought GRACE to mind on my walk, and a stanza of the hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ by John Newton, December 1772

No matter what challenges you are enduring, may you always know that GRACE is here with you.

Poetry and Photography by Susan LePlae Miller

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