'Tis Blessing, I Speak {11}

Undivided mind.

It is yours.

That you would see it and know it,
that you would choose it, claim it,
breathe it and be it.
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Today I had a memory.

Do you remember the day I spoke
to the faculty preparing for summer?
It was the first time I'd seen you, in a while.
We smiled cautiously, we waved casually,
and that was that.

But I saw something in you that I hadn't seen before;
a layer lining your very being,
the presence of the enemy.

And then I saw you again, soon after,
at a party to celebrate a friend.
And you said hello and I found in myself an anger so Righteous,
it took me by surprise:

You had let the darkness in.
And it meant there was more to wait for.

I don't say this to shame you today;
I say it, in fact, to beg.
I understand how these things happen but
whatever that was, whatever you agreed to:
tell it now, to leave.

Until it does,
your mind, your body, your soul, your spirit,
will always be divided.

Today I pray for the authority of Jesus,
for alignment of your mind with His.

May the Lord bless and keep you, 

may he make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you, 

and turn his face toward you, and give you his peace.