Eve’s Daughter

The poem ‘God Believes In Me’ was written sometime in August 2005 (before I realised it would be useful to save the date in the filename so I know exactly when it was written). It came about as my pastor called me up one Thursday asking if I could write a poem for the Sunday service. He told me what he wanted and I set to. In two days I wrote and rewrote, and rewrote a few more times the poem ‘God Believes In Me’. I actually ended up writing two poems and I let my pastor choose which one suited the theme the best.

I read the poem on that Sunday morning and haven’t looked at it since. It’s been two years! I decided to read it again and see if it was as good as I remembered it being, or if I was just delusional. It’s still good, in fact, I am astounded at how good it is! As I read the words I started crying and ended up praying. I know this poem was not just me using my gift with words, it was God-inspired and God-breathed; I really feel the words of this poem have been touched by God.

Suddenly I am ‘afraid’, God has given me a gift, a talent, an ability to craft words, to ‘wordsmith’ and it is an awesome and frightening responsibility that I now realise God has entrusted me with. I don’t think I am a great writer, I know there are writers more talented than I. Yet He has placed in my heart an almost overwhelming desire to write and when He touches the words I write, they become more than just words, they come alive, filled with the essence of God, they become powerful. I am in awe of the responsibility God has given me with words and I am humbled by it.

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