Expecting a Mother’s Day related sermon this Sunday, it caught my attention fairly strongly when instead the sermon was based on 2nd Corinthians 6:2:

http://www.biblestudytools.com/2-corinthians/6.html

A New Direction
by Michael Romani

When you repent
You take a new direction
Asking God to relent
And accepting his correction

Nothing says to continue
Doing whatever you do
But it is said to renew
And in this find a new you

Shrouded and missed
Through salvation kissed
His words upon the page
Set us on our stage

For the capability
Of living to our capacity
If only we would
Live in the peace of the Good

Instead we walk in conflict
One since Eden and we can predict
That there is no perfection
In the path of man's direction

Spinning on the edge of calamity
Instead of gliding through reality
Like ducks on a pond with feet kicking
Under the surface  hearts are ticking

Choosing crazy sorts of choices
Listening to our addictive voices
In the fallen nature of man
Trying so hard and doing what we can

Though Jesus loves to be forgiving
We are responsible for what we're living
We are sinners by birth and choice
Ignoring holiness for temptation's voice

We know that this is all too true
These are the deliberate choices
The choices made by me and you
We need to listen to other voices

Those of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Heeding these in our hearts at most
Or face our own path of responsibility
As we shape our own jaded reality

Sin takes its job perhaps very seriously
While God counters this mysteriously
We stand in life broken beyond repair
Like pickled cucumber some might compare

Unable to un-pickle our unclean selves
We might seek wisdom from the shelves
It's not through ourselves that we can fix
The crooked path of Satan's tricks

Despite all of our humble sincerity
Let the Word provide its clarity
That our desires to do what is good
Yet, it's not that we do though we would

A failed path that is not made right
Try though we would with all our might
The only solution is to be made anew
Growing into Jesus as a new you

He went to the cross that we might 
Be born again and our lives made right
Desperate clutches replaced by hope
God extends His grace filled rope

Filling our lives with a new sort of nature
One that takes a child and makes us mature
There in that mirror that's been revealing 
We now see blessed signs of God's indwelling

Grafted on us to produce our good fruit
Living in God's love and joy filled pursuits
The roots still bitterly hinder our new ways
Unless we carefully cultivate our new days

Living up to our fullest sense of the Providential
It's a blessing in coming to our full potential
All around we see and live in a sin sick world 
One in which the banners of Satan are unfurled

And held up as the strange standards to live by
There are the things that are enough to make me cry
Tears in my eyes, I fight this battle on my knees
In prayer, nurturing the ways that I know will please

Spiritual desires focused on that which is wholly Him
No longer overruled by my every unholy whim
Chaos replaced by the order and peace 
By surrendering my ways to God's sweet release

And so, it's up to us to put on this new life
Living as a disciple of love and not strife
Walking our path and nurturing this light
In Jesus's name we boldly seek to do right

(c) May 14, 2017   Michael Romani