Ode to the voice inside my ❤️ Heart.

 I heard you before I knew my name. My cries knew your soothing and my laughter knew your jokes

You spoke to me before my mother's voice registered in my mind

You are the voice inside my heart.

I grew up thinking You were just an echo of my thoughts

I thoughtYou were the image I saw look back at me from the mirror

I just never guessed that You are You, The voice inside my heart.

When I was tempted to do wrong, You guided me right

When I was at crossroads, You pointed the way out

When I lost, You found me

Even before I knew You, the voice inside my heart.

I know You now.

You let me see you when I almost jumped down that building, engulfed by pain and grief

You stepped in, caught me, and made me know how much You love me

I was saved that day

I am saved today because of You, Lord Jesus, the Voice inside my heart.

If I were 16 again

 I would bind wounds and not stab with words that escaped the prison of my mouth.

I would learn to fly without checking the wind's intensity,

Trusting my Creator, like the Eagles, to lift me higher than my fears.

If I were 16 again,

I would learn to wipe my tears with a napkin, instead of scrubbing them away with a hard rock.

Hard rocks never tear down walls, they only bruise hearts.

If I were 16 again,

I would learn to kneel with hands lifted in a 'V'.

I would learn to sing.

I would laugh more often.

I would love and forgive more.

16 is an age lost past.

Now is a reality always in sight,

I am learning and I am moving. 

Thank God.