Return to me

Return to me

Return to me with fasting.
Fast from all that distracts
and steals you away from me.

Return to me

Return to me with weeping.
Awake, and weep for what has been lost.
Weep in the shield of my arms,
my beloved.

Return to me

Return to me with mourning.
Do not rend your garments for
I do not require your shame,
but your exposing.

Return to me

Rend your heart, tear away the mantle.
It can not protect, only harden.
It can not heal the crevices chiseled
or hide the lies engraved.

Return to me

I will remove this heart of stone
and offer you a heart of flesh;
a whole heart bound up
and protected by my law of love.
I will inscribe upon it true things.

Return to me

For I am the LORD your God.
I will not hasten to anger
but am extravagant in love.

I put before you life,
Wholehearted life.
Return to me
and LIVE.


Joel 2:12-13, John 8:44, Ezekiel 36:26-27, Luke 4:18, Jeremiah 31:33, Matthew 7:12, John 14:6, Deuteronomy 30:6, 16, 19-20, John11:25.