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Lord I need to hear your voice

Though I may not understand;

Lord I need to feel you near

Though I've not the strength to stand;

Lord I need to know you love

Though my love to you is weak;

Lord I need to give you thanks

Though I hardly dare to speak

For you are all that I could need

All that I desire;

Oh, fill me with your boundless love

Your passion and your fire.

Brian Hick January 2015

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Teach me how to love, as you have done

Since the world first stumbled into life

And consciousness warmed to the morning sun.

Teach me how to love.

Returning love to family and friend

Is easy, but I need to love the one

Who undergoes rejection without end,

Who courts loathing, a propensity to numb

All thoughts of generosity, to rend

Relationships until all hopes succumb.

Teach me how to love.

Brian Hick July 2013

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I believe this was about the time Brian started working with a charity for the homeless. Sally

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I've tried to ignore, but now you shout

"It really will not do, enough's enough;

What is it the you do not understand?

Or are you simply stupid, letting rough

Times weigh you down - as if you were alone -

Not sheltered by my love when things get tough,I

Safe beneath my wings, held in my hands,

Guarded from assault and sin's demands."

"But then of course you only think of me

When you're in trouble, or the way ahead

Is complex and the paths not clear to see;

As if, made in my image, your big head

Will solve it all - while I yearn to be

Salvation, from the darkness that you dread."

Brian Hick May 2014

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Why is it so difficult to say

Thank You, when you answer all my prayers?

For days I've moaned about your endless silence,

Bound up with depression and old cares,

But now, within this hour, you've sorted out

All the things I've thrown at you, as if

You've been so close I hardly needed think

Before you'd lavished on me every gift

Necessary to ensure that all

That I had asked has fallen into place -

With more - to quietly confirm that you

Have been there all the time and I was safe.

            I fly beneath the shelter of your wings

            Where Love alone such joy and bounty brings.

Brian Hick March 2013

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 893

Now I need no words to speak to you

Writing this seems somewhat out of line

But being human, even though I see through

Ther verbage, I need to take my time

Moving away from what I thought I've known,

Even if I abondoned it erstwhile

As infantile fantasy, hoping that I'd grown

Out of comfortable habits which beguile

But simply cannot pass the acid test,

The rational and scientific stare,

Which easily dismisses any quest

For actual answers to a well aimed prayer;

          But then, of course, prayer's just pie-in-the-sky

          To those who have not taught their souls to fly.

Brian Hick Feb 2011

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