CUT TO THE QUICK AND BARELY STANDING GROUND

 

CUT TO THE QUICK AND BARELY STANDING GROUND

Cut to the quick and barely standing ground

Here is my general lamentation after the Fall

The battle does not end

Weary we lean like reeds by the river bank

He will not break

Though all other things may

Conspire to break us on the way

Thicker the shadows grow

And we feel undone.

Still there is the Son

Truly our Sun

The only one

Lighting up the formidable skies

Shepherd of shepherds

In our eyes

His sheltering lambs.

mary angela douglas 29 march 2024