Repairer of Fences

(Artist, John Atkinson)

"I am alone in the dark, and I am thinking

what darkness would be mine if I could see

the ruin I wrought in every place I wandered

and if I could not be

aware of One who follows after me.

Whom do I love, O God, when I love Thee?

The great Undoer who has torn apart

the walls I built against a human heart, 

The Mender who has sewn together the hedges

through which I broke when I went seeking ill,

the Love who follows and loves me still.

Fumbler and fool that I am, with things around me

and of fragile make like souls, how I am blessed

and to hear behind me footsteps of a Savior!

I sing to the east; I sing to the lighted west,

God is my repairer of fences, turning my paths into rest."

(Jessica Powers)