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yes.
if You give me the will and the way, yes.
if You paint the hope into my soul, yes.
if You show me it would make You happy, yes.
Your ways are higher than my ways.
raise my ways to meet Yours
and i will say yes.
i ache to say yes to You.
i dream about hearing You say my name.
i hear Your name in the song of the birds.
i see Your love in the colors of the child's eyes.
i feel You breathe into my lungs.
i sense Your smile when the orphan gets a home.
i sometimes sense that i am the orphan in Your halls.
if You tell me to love when my heart feels betrayed,
yes.
if You tell me to hope when all hope is gone,
yes.
if You tell me to love Your people
when they are who have broken my heart,
yes.
when You tell me to release the shame in my heart,
yes.
when You discipline me because i am Your son,
yes.
when You command my love for You above all else,
yes.
when obedience to You is death to myself,
yes.
when You choose odd and unusual people
and tell me to offer them Your love,
yes.
let me hear You, my Lord and my God.
touch my lips with the embers that cleanse.
bury Your song in every corner of my heart.
replace the monsters in the closets of my heart
with Your gentle presence.
let me love You without puking Your name on the unprepared.
show me each person's appointed season to hear about You.
hear my prayer joining the prayers of all
who ask You to end the war.
when i was young, i was afraid to say yes to You.
i was afraid that You would ask too much.
now i am no longer young,
and You have never asked too much.
and i so long to love You with my yes.
my answer, my song, my prayer to You:
yes.
You are the yes in my heart.