Pictures of Grace, Part three of four,

Sanctifying Grace

How amazing is it to see the dawn,
to wittiness its growth as one come from meager beginnings
a light like a life known for its steady movement from darkness to destiny.
As if a viewless voiceless wheel pulls it by some invisible power,
sunshine like grace filling empty night, lifting the falling,
teaching the weak that beauty is a capacity of all things created.
A capacity through which we creep into the experience of redemption,
And gain the knowledge of redemptive action, the Awe of Amazing grace,
Grace like a sunrise in slow moving beauty.
Burns me, changes me, And I only grow hotter from its flame

Empowering Grace

How amazing it is that freedom rings in the hearts of men,
that blood and faith stands stronger than chains.
That the longing for justice is a grace to act
yet in stillness, grace slowly saturates and nations are changed

How amazing it is to see the freedom that is not free
take root in people that know not freedom
and even in chains, in hate, in the stretch of a whip
And rise, A people rise, as free men ..They rise by grace.

Grace amazing in oppressive flame
Unending grace in a shepherd's Fame
Grace amazing in inspiring ways
Unending grace in enduring waves

Grace is freeing grace
Grace is good
Grace is known as God is good.
And Good is God reaching out in love
Grace is unmatched gifts
from the fire dove.