A Beautiful Mosaic

Let her see us listen Carefully to you Let her see us follow The path you lead us to Let her see us thank you In good times of blessing Let her see us trust you In bad, get on our knees Let her see us love the ones Who haven’t known Your love Let her see us overflow With new life from above Let her see us cling to peace When life just falls apart Let her see us love fully The shattered, broken heart Let her see us sacrifice Pour our lives out for you Let her see us find ourselves In You, not what we do Let her see us open doors To those who are alone Let her see us share our life And our hearts and our home And let these things that she sees Bring her to a place Where she will grow to follow you And live by your grace.

Can I get a witness? Am I the only one who brought a baby home from the hospital and felt, at least for a second, that her cries of need were the first signs of weakness in my parenting?  That I might just not be enough for this gig? Am I the only one who was already kicking myself by the time my sweet little baby was, oh, two days old, that one day this sweet helpless babe would inevitably be failed by me and hurt by my own insufficiencies? Am I the only one who has turned around and walked out of Walgreens after the first whimper cry out of my 3-week-old's mouth?  Because, after all, what does a crying baby in line at the pharmacy scream to the world? Am I the only one who has spun myself into a tizzy worrying about whether or not my infant would stop breathing in her sleep or catch deadly pneumonia from a common cold?  And that if she did, it would ultimately be my fault? I have realized it is bea...