(For the past year or so, I have been “minimizing” things in my life – activities, obligations, personal items, wardrobe, even food – in an attempt to simplify. Little did I know that God would take it one step further in the past couple of weeks by minimizing ME,Taking away my need for control. My selfish pride. My relentless, debilitating fear. The result? The most beautiful two weeks of my entire life. Intimacy with and dependency on Jesus in ways I’ve never experienced before. It would take an entire book to try and explain all that has transpired these past 14 days. Painful? Yes. But nothing less than delicious with the richness of His presence and love. More of Him. Less of me. The perfect blend…simple and delectable, and my heart’s insatiable craving.)
This simple taste
My loss, your grace
Still lingers on my tongue
My heart responds
With thanks, with psalms
No verse will go unsung
How could it be
A girl like me
Could share in such a feast?
Your endless Grace
This face to face
Your most here with my least.
Applying heat
You let me eat
The Savory Reduction
The glorious blend
Your start, my end
My pride-and-fear’s destruction
“Oh taste and see, the Lord is good!”
I hear you say to me
As fragrant spices – mercy, love –
Circle wild and free.
Appetite wrecked,
I want nothing less
Than more and more of You
My heart’s desire,
Yourself, Your fire
To burn in me and through
I won’t forget
My palate whet
By this Savory Reduction
I taste, I see
More You, less me
Delectable concoction.
So let it growl
Within my bowel
This hunger deep inside
Where only You
And all You do
Will keep me satisfied.
