God's Love
I pray and beg of thee;
Commit me to your memory. *
Place me among your 'Forget me nots'.
In many ways my friend,
I am a lot like you.
In a food crisis, my best memory speaks,
not of just bread and water, but also leeks.
A bowed incivility is all that I had known.
Egypt land where I was born never felt like home.
Yet it was there I roamed but never really belonged.
Liberties were greatly denied, but yet I thrived.
My first taste of liberty led me to an angry sea.
The Almighty protected me from my vicious enemy.
From the miracle of the sea, I came to a place in the wilderness.
I dreamed of comfort, security, and sweetness, only to be awakened
to a nightmare of bitterness. But God always loves me with tenderness.
052922PS *Israelite experiences in Egypt
Copyright © Curtis Johnson | Year Posted 2022
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