New Beginnings

Climbing up out of despair

I can smell the crisp fresh air

Walking away, not a broken bone in sight

I swear I saw an angel lift off in flight

Or was it Your luminous glowing Light

Wrapped around me as my car took flight?

Such kindness; such love-could I ever repay?

You literally saved my life that day

A new chance; a do-over You’ve given me

A new beginning is all I see!

Those bars held me in so many years

Daily I heard their snarls and jeers

And for a season I played along….

With the politics of the inside- all wrong.

Til the day they beat me to the core

My dignity seemed gone forevermore

But survival came as You reached in

My heart you grabbed up my sin

A new chance; a do-over you’ve given me

A new beginning is all I see

Growing up in poverty and daily shame

Scornfully looked upon by those who knew my name

Knowing I couldn’t beat the statistics, I relented

There’s no God, the idea was cemented

Until the day I heard Your Holy Word come forth

From a preacher’s lips, my eyes looked North

And I saw Your miraculous Hand reach down

And surround me with a love so sound

You gave me a new name; a new song

No longer living in the dark; in the wrong

A new chance; a do-over You’ve given me

A new beginning is all I see!

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold all thing become new. 2 Cor. 5:17