WHERE GRACE RAINS
Photo by michael podger on Unsplash
A Poem by Deborah Rutherford
Dear God,
here is my tender heart.
With you,
I am like a child again;
sunshine cascades:
A countenance of joy.
A rain shower,
Your tears,
a baptism
of soothing balm,
a river of love
lifts the veil.
Now, as an older woman,
Grandma age, some say,
Your love brings me back
to those precious days of purity.
Where grace rains,
a sweet aroma
pierces my soul and spirit,
marrow and bone.
Excavating debris
hiding in my crevice,
my flesh;
a holy fire purge
through showers
of celestial song.
Where grace rains,
droplets dance,
gentle but firm,
splashing wonder
soaking my earth.
You stripped shame;
dead pieces of me,
snapped away,
flushing
from head to toe.
A love
burst into my being;
I sparkle like jewels.
A love which bears my sin’s
weight and shackles
quenches my thirst.
I am forever
in your embrace,
ascending
in your pleasure
of preciousness
as grace rains down.
To know you love me
is everything,
my Savior,
who died for me;
cherished, I am.
I was undone,
but you put me back together
where grace rains,
and I run into your embrace
of liquid living water.
Washed clean,
purified
as grace rain
washes my sin wounds cool
like your gentle scars, anew.
I emerge a shiny new one,
glistening and fine-tuned,
a princess from the
dirt:
a new flower to bloom;
a new sunset rise;
a rainbow in the sky;
dancing in the rain.
Deborah Rutherford, a poet, embarks on a journey sharing the wonder of God through the unusual and the ordinary, finding God everywhere. She has found solace and redemption from childhood and young adulthood trauma through Jesus and writing. Bringing her stories out of the dark into the light has been life-saving and illuminating. She is the founder of the Behold-Her Beauty Blog & Podcast at www.deborahrutherford.com. Her poetry and writing have been published in the Way Back to Ourselves, Vessels of Flight, Aletheia Today, and the Calla Press, Literary Journal Spring 2024. Deborah is currently working on her debut poetry collection with Editor-in-Chief Kimberly Phinney of the Way Back To Ourselves.
