Between Grief and Grace

As we swing between grief and grace Your purposes are mystery

But we find in Your Holy Face that grace provides sufficiently

For just as we need it it avails to give us what we seek

The power and the courage to overcome when we are weak/

Grace to overcome our need, Grace to overwhelm our pain

Wondrous grace by which we’re freed to stand where logic can’t explain.

Somewhere between grief and grace is a haven of peace and light

Where we are sheltered in a place of sweet release and quickened sight

As the pendulum rocks within our hearts we swing from grief to grace

Then sways back again to where it starts and the cycle again we face

Until the pendulum fin’lly halts and grace rushes into the void

To cover completely o’er all of our faults cleansing memories to be enjoyed

As we swing between grief and grace Your purposes are mystery

But we find in Your Holy Face that grace provides sufficiently

April 22,1998

Anthony Foster

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