You Call Me Daughter
By C C Keaton
You dreamt me up from eternity past
You determined which days would be my first and my last
You fashioned me with abilities as well as limitations
In wisdom and loving kindness
Using materials borrowed from previous generations
Originally, you took me from part of another’s carriage
To form a mysterious picture
Of how one is not quite whole without their counterpart in marriage
And even this is but mere shadow
A kind of cosmic, dress-rehearsal-reality show
You wrote a song deep into my heart
One that only You can tell apart
So uniquely purposed for Your good deeds
To bear fruit, follow suit, in restoration’s pursuit
Obeying all of Your commands and creeds
Once fully formed and birthed
You gave me breath of life
Endowed with inherent dignity and worth
And yes my physical parts tell a story
Not for my own but for Your Heavenly glory!
Plunged into a world that tells lies and deceives
And tickles the vain desires inside of me
Ruled by an enemy hell bent on my corruption
Into straying down a wayward path of destruction
A lamb to the slaughter
But You call me daughter!
So please keep my direction ever facing Your Kingdom
Fill me with courage, faith, hope and help me use my freedom
To love all others just as my own self
For therein lives the true wealth
And keep me humble, in daily need of Your living water
Forever grateful that You call me daughter!