These are the gifts I offer,
though it would appear that I have none
sufficient to meet you in this storm.

Shelter inside my heart the first:
where you may lay down your shield
and all the guilt for all the times 
you raised your sword,
knowing at last
you may be
made well, at rest
now whole, in love.

The second: Strength enough to rise
to new life—the one that has been yours
to find through all the ages, with 
courage to release all illusions
of wrapping yourself in linen
to receive just punishment,
becoming the
battering ram.

A new Song I would offer up to God,
sing together with you. We will make our way
through its melody, supported by
nature's harmony, and find
our spirit's lifted up in time
and we returned to love,
eyes fixed on all
that's good and true .