A Psalm for Today: "I will wait..."

Just choose between life and me.
Just choose to be or to leave.
Just choose to glorify or seek your own glory.

Can you choose to wait?
Can you choose to be something you are not?
Can you choose to be glorifying to God always?

Can you choose to hear me?
Can you choose to listen to me?
Can you choose to remove me for me?

Be my glory Lord.
Be my soul.
Be my life.

Be my light.
Be my hope.
Be my direction.

Be my soul purpose in life.
Be my glory and love of and to all of humanity.
Be my soul’s longing, my heart’s waiting, my soul’s longing...my soul’s longing...my soul’s long...

How long must I wait for you to hear me?
How long must I wait patiently to hear your ways and call?
How long must I just wait patiently....for you Lord?

To be patiently waiting for you, though, O, Lord
is to be patiently waiting for all your soul longs for.
To be patiently waiting for you, O, Lord,
is to be patiently waiting for all the hope of the world.
And to be patiently waiting for you, O, Lord
is to be patiently waiting for the call of the soul, the call of the wild heart, the call of all love within me to be fulfilled
with the full and complete knowledge that it will be fulfilled - filled - made whole again, through you....

For this longing, for this hope, for this wholeness...I will wait, always.
For I have known its fulfillment at other times in my life and know that You, O Lord will fulfill your hopes, your dreams and your promises within, through and in spite of me...

I love you and for your Holy wholeness I will wait...

poem written by Becky Pierson 2/2/09 - based on Psalm 13

For further reading, study and prayer on the subject of waiting and struggles with this waiting, read Psalm 13 and 40 and Lamentations 3