A Poem

There's a line in a song that says "it's a slow fade" talking about the "fading" of relationships over time and that it is so important to keep watch over the covenants you have entered into in your life, and to trust in the grace and power of God in restoring brokenness.


covenants do not dissolve as does alka-seltzer

not right before your eyes...
unless you're filming a documentary
and following in disguise
Of course you'd have to predict it
know the signs early on
maybe start filming before
the covenant has officially begun
Then how long to you have?
2 years or twenty?
What will you do with the down time?
You will surely have plenty

No, they fade over time though they seem to break suddenly

Who can see the heart?
Who can know the minds of men
Who can see the start?
It grows silently like a tumor
When finally seen, accelerating and consuming
Becoming a complicated web
So hopeless and confusing
You never hear the crescendo
Just the triumphant collision
You hardly know the questions
Before you're faced with the decision

Chase the foxes out of your garden.

How much care do you take?
with small things day to day
What do you forsake?
To feed your selfish ambition
Don't put it off another day
A covenant is not a convenient thing
Yet the impossible still finds a way
To break through our apathy
In and out of season
With or without passion
Sometimes it's even better without a reason

Covenants are kept not by our strength but by His

We are cursed and gone astray
The covenant of life was broken so easily
We cannot even make a way
back to the light that created us
In this hopelessness we cry
The Father hears and answers
And sends his son to die
And we are being saved,
Our broken covenants are being restored
To him and those to whom we've pledged our lives and our love
When we recognize and live in the forgiveness of a wage we could never afford.