GRACE UNFOLDS (Father Manny)

Grace Unfolds(c)2010 Stephanie Durand

Dedicated to my children, Brett & Brittany
and my grandchildren, Hayden & Landon

"What is grace?"
a young child asks
"Who is God,
and what's my task?"

"What is grace?"
a young child asks...
Grace is from God
when we cross His path

Grace is forgiveness
Grace is His love
Grace is His mercy
from heaven above

"Is it free?"
a young child asks
"Is it for me, too?"
an older man gasps

"Yes," God says, "it is,
for each and every soul
yes, it is free
for young and old"

"Does God love me?"
a young child ask
"God created you, my child
and His love nothing can surpass!"

He crowned you before you were born
You are his and his alone
You live on earth
But heaven will one day be all our home

So never will you be alone
on earth as long as you live
for God is always, always with you
Like a light in a distant shore,
His light, and grace, his love, his mercy,
He will forever give!

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2010 - After a few years of not writing a single poem, I saw Father Manny again just a few weeks ago, and again, I am writing. I always seem to write a lot after he blesses me and prays over me. We did not even know he was in town on this day! We were leaving a parking lot when someone stopped us and asked for directions to the building that he would be doing the healing mass in that day! We were glad that they did, for we were able to go ourselves and have him pray over us and bless us!  It had been five years since I had written! After the healing mass, the next morning is when I wrote this poem.