Happiness and Forgivness (Psalm 32)

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Happy are those whose sins are forgiven,
    whose wrongs are pardoned.

Psalm 32:1 

 
Happiness,
for sins forgiven,
a pardon from my Lord.
I shout with praise.
He does not accuse me
of that
which I have confessed.

When I lived in my shame
I was separate
from my soul.
Drained of my tears
and strength
my joy was nothing more
than embers
fading in the shadows.

Then I knelt before God.
I confessed the darkness
He refused to see.
For it is my soul
laboring in sin
not the sight of the Lord.

Happiness,
for my sins are forgiven.
I will follow Him
where paths are straight,
fields are plowed
and the harvest is rich.



 copyright 2017 - Donald P James Jr
 

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