Tell Me - Poem

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Tell me what I am, Father.

Tell me what I am - 

For people see me differently

To what I feel I am.

Tell me what you see, Father.

Tell me what you see -

Goodness, love, tranquility,

Can you see these in me?

Tell me what you hear, Father.

Tell me what you hear - 

Words of love and words of strife,

Both fall upon your ear.

Tell me all my flaws, Father.

Tell me all my flaws -

My thoughts, words and fears in life

That flow with a wrong cause.

Show me what to change, Father.

Show me what to change -

So I can be more like you,

To sin I can be strange.

Show me how to live, Father.

Show me how to live -

To those in my life be true,

And that your love I give.

Show them who I am, Father.

Show them who I am -

Not good, not great, nor that wise;

That is not who I am.

Show them who you are, Father.

Show them who you are -

For my "good" is through your eyes:

The good in me, You are.

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"[there is] none that doeth good, no, not one." - Psalm 14:13

"And they glorified God in me." - Galatians 1:24