She prayed day after day, year after year for a child
Then when God gave her the desire of her heart
Hannah gave her son right back to Him
It made no logical sense to the mind
But her heart knew that love gives
lavishly, unreservedly
She saved day after day, year after year
Her life savings, her security
All in that alabaster flask that she emptied out in worship
On the Lover of her soul
It made no logical sense to the mind
To waste all that she had saved
But her heart knew that love gives
lavishly, unreservedly
It makes no logical sense to the mind
God in the flesh, perfect and sinless
Dying for people whose deceitful, wicked hearts
Day after day, year after year, stray away
After gods that are not God
But Love gave
lavishly, unreservedly
He was the Alabaster Flask of Priceless Perfume
Poured out for us
Wasted for us
It makes no logical sense to the mind
My life poured out for Him
Spilled out in worship to a God I cannot see
But my heart knows that love gives
lavishly, unreservedly
Still following,
Elizabeth
This is so beautiful and I am so
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Beautiful! Thank you for sharing these words.
ReplyDelete~Adrienne~
Visiting from Imperfect Prose ... this is beautiful! Thanks for sharing it ...
ReplyDeleteLovely. Thank you.
ReplyDelete"Dying for people whose deceitful, wicked hearts
ReplyDeleteDay after day, year after year, stray away
After gods that are not God"
this was such a beautiful post, thank you.
Stunning.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Elizabeth. Beautiful.
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spilled out in worship... friend, this reminds me of the perfume mary poured on Jesus' feet... so rich, so pure, so priceless... what a gift, this poem.
ReplyDeleteThe flask that never runs dry... gorgeous
ReplyDelete1) beautiful header, serene and lovely
ReplyDelete2)love gives lavishly and unreservedly - I need to hear this today, I've been calculating invoices on love today.
*nodding* i need to cling to this giving lavishly and unreservedly. it can be so easy to slip back into measuring love by earthly gain, not by lavish generousity.
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