4: Lost and Found by Celita
As a follow up to this week's episode here are the show notes and the words to my poem "Lost and Found". This is the second poem in my Recovery series.
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Lost and Found
I’ll try to tell them that I need You
But I have no idea
How to communicate or articulate
What You’ve been whispering in my ear
You’ve made such a difference in my life
So I hope I can hear
Just speak Your truth in this mic
Just make it plain and clear
I was lost, now I’m found
And it’s feeling so good
I’m so glad I got to know you
I’m so glad that I could
You’re always listening and waiting
Yeah
You’re always right there
And I don’t have to ask how far
You’re at the end of this prayer…Father
I need God for what’s ahead
Without him I’m tires with no tread
But He puts on the breaks so I can stop
And brings my destructive habits to a head
Without Him all my junk would flow through
And who you think it’s gonna’ go to
My kids reproduced after my kind
Acting out what I left behind
The things I didn’t take time
To have released from my mind
It all flows through unnecessarily
And I can barely deal with the mess in me
Imagine the stress, cause I didn’t pass the test
As this affects the rest of my family
See we need God to plug the drain
And clean up what’s been jacked up
So we can be healed from the pain
And generational curses that have been backed up
See He’s everything to me
My peace and my sanity
So I gotta’ be the queen P
Praisin’ Him consistently
‘Cause even though my hearts been broken
I can rest on the words He’s spoken
My mind remains open
And I see a glimmer of hope when
I’m jumping
My fist pumping
Saying, I don’t know how I’m gonna get through it
But with God I can do it
And when He does it I say
“Thank you Father, I knew it”
But without him where would I be
Man face down in a dirt pile screaming
“I wish I had a Father to save me”
I’m trying to tell you that I need Him
But I have no idea
How to communicate or articulate
What He’s been whispering in my ear
He’s made such a difference in my life
So I hope I can hear
And speak His truth in this mic
Just make it plain and clear
I was lost, now I’m found
And it’s feeling so good
I’m so glad I got to know Him
I’m so glad that I could
He’s always listening and waiting
Yeah
He’s always right there
How far away do you ask?
Just at the end of a prayer…Father
See, without God when you’re going through
There’s nothing to look forward too
Might as well stop there and bask in the despair
Of what’s aching you
But with Christ there’s a light
A reason for this pain and this fight
I’m in the place because someone needs these
He gives me healing so I can beat this
I’m putting up prayer as my defense
It keeps the devil from getting cheap hits
Because without Him I can defeat this
So I bail out early
Now the person that needed to hear from me
Won’t see my victory
Because I killed my testimony
And opportunity of delivering blessing
Approached life pride fully and I got my tail licked
Tried to go at it alone and I got my butt kicked
I’m not an unscathed Christian
I pray reality help you listen
I’ve tasted the venom of the serpent
And I would be dead for certain
If I didn’t have a God to believe in
It’s because of Him I’m still breathin’
He sent His son Jesus to relieve us
To teach and to heal us
To give His strength up so we won’t give up
So it’s God we must worship
I’m trying to tell you that I need Him
But I have no idea
How to communicate or articulate
What’s He’s been whispering in my ear
Now I’m not saying it’s been easy
Actually even now I’m dealing
But I can look forward to the future
If I just follow His leading
I was lost, now I’m found
And it’s feeling so good
I’m so glad I got to know Him
I’m so glad that I could
He’s always listening and waiting
Yeah
He’s always right there
How far away do you ask?
Just at the end of a prayer
You see He took my sin and He quenched it
Grabbed it by the neck and He lynched it
I couldn’t do it so He pinch hit
Took what was difficult and He cinched it
Without Him I’m a misfit
He took my ride and he pimped it
If you’re not listening you might have missed it
He took my wound and He kissed it
He’s the ultimate hustler
He can sell God to the atheist
Purity to the promiscuous
Life to the suicidal
And food to the anorexic
He can stability to the nomad
Sobriety to the addict
He can sell “let go” to the clepto
He can sell water to the devil
I’m trying to tell YOU that YOU need Him
“Cause you have NO idea
How He gives such peace and He calms all fears
I’m not saying it will be easy
Actually, even now you can be dealing
But you can look forward to the future
If you just follow His leading
If you are lost, you can be found
And it will feel so good
You now have the chance to get to know Him
I sure wish that you would
He’s always listening and waiting
Yeah
He’s always right there
How far away do you ask?
Just at the end of a prayer…Father
