IN YOUR PRESENCE

I bask in Your presence
my Lord and my King,
Your grace is outpouring
giving every good thing.

You feed me and clothe me
You give me to drink,
You pull me back to Your arms
when I’m too near the brink.

When in pain, I go calling
to the foot of Your Cross,
You shore up my spirits
calm the waves, when I toss.

In sorrow, You hold me
and whisper Your love,
share my tears and my sadness
call me Your precious dove.

When I seek You in joy
my heart leaps like a lamb,
as we laugh and we dance
all my love in Your hands.

I thank You Lord Jesus
for Your presence, my King,
for the rain of Your graces
and the love song You sing.

Margaret Rose Larrivee
Mar. 17, 2000

BE MY HEART

The heart that beats within me
neglected, full of sinfulness,
it’s chambers rife with drafts and cold
scarred by hurts and brokeness.

It cries out in its woundedness
though all around hear not,
it loves with all its weaknesses
it loves with all it’s got.

Longing for new life and healing
yearning only to be whole,
to beat as one with Jesus
the Ruler of my soul.

Be my heart Lord Jesus
I invite You to come in,
replace the broken rhythm
with Your heart beat from within.

Margaret Rose Larrivee
Mar. 01, 2000