Love

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Bloodied Broken Prodigal Heart

Having gambled away

Every Grace

Every Good Gift Given,

Left Empty

Razed

Unrecognizable

Except

To a Father

Whose Heart bred this one

Bled for this one

Bore, in Agonizing Union

Every Blow

Each Abuse

The Crucifixion of Unbearable Betrayal...

In a show of Unprecedented Mercy,

Of Unbelievable, Astounding Grace

He tenderly takes up

My wasted Judas heart

Claims it as His own

Sees the treasure beneath the ruins

He unearths it

all of it

the excruciating pain

the paralyzing sorrow

the utterly undone-ness of it all...

And Instead

Buries it, absorbs it, into His very own Breast

Broods over it

and again, Breathes into it, 

the ancient In The Beginning words, 

"Let There Be..."...

Willing it to Live Again

Readying it
for

Resurrection

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"All Things New"

-Revelation 21:5