The Wounded Driven To Prayer

"Pure genius in every way",

the wounded one said.

To the beloved ones 

who are privileged 

to be broken and torn,

these are the ones 

who find the secret place.

They find the secluded,

the all alone.

They find straight and narrow.

They enter a place 

where God's wounded ones find.

And He knew they would.

And there they cry.

There they pray.

There they go to the room alone

and close the door

and it's them and God alone.

They come out and say,

"forsaken but not abandoned,

struck down but not destroyed.

Always bearing in our body,

the marks of the Lord Jesus."

The wounded one knows

that they will never leave the alone,

unchanged. 

In them, they have identified

with Christ.

In them, He is being formed.

And He is being birthed.

"Pure genius", the wounded one

can say at the end of his life

each day.

"If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him." --Oswald Chambers