PowerHouse Coaching

This picture was taken in Scotland, close by Drymen village where we stayed.  To me it is a reflection of the walls we build when we are hurt by others.  That is not the plan God has for us.  We must forgive and not allow walls to be built, but stay open, transparent and vulnerable.

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I wrote this in May 2004 and came across it tonight and was amazed I wrote something like this:

Walls of Trust

You think your walls protect you

You build them high

Way up into the sky

With each brick you lay

Distrust wins the day

Brick by brick you work so hard

Your wall so high, you should be so proud

No holes, no cracks

You check every inch

Every day, every hour

When someone tries to come near

Stay back you warn

Any who wishes or tries

To see over the height

They build ladders and stairs

Trying to get a glimpse

Of the beauty you try to hide

Trust destroyed in one fell swoop

No doubt in your mind that forever

You’ll be in the dark

That’s ok though

You’re protected now

With the walls you’ve built

Then one day you come to realize

Your true love has tried so hard

To reach the top, to glimpse inside

Tiptoeing and reaching

All the while begging to be set free

Promises upon promises build the way

You try to dig a hole

In your tall wall

but the mortar you’ve used to attach the bricks

Is tight and tighter

How can you get through?

You want to trust

You want to believe

But how can it be?

Brick upon brick

Hurt upon hurt

Year upon year

It’s so high, you can’t see the top

And all you want

Is the madness to stop

It’s when you make a choice

to believe in the unseen

That the mortar starts to fade

And the bricks fall like blades

Brick by brick, day by day

And then comes the way

You’ll want your bricks back

Where’d they all go?

You don’t need them though

It’s scarier this way

To trust in God everyday

He knows what’s best

And in your interest

Let God lead the way

And shine through you day by day

You’ll see you’ll find

Your walls kept you in the dark

And not a part

of His great light

And your delight

Will be the joy you find

As you bind

And intertwine your heart to be

One with the one you love

And trust and see

All the holes your hurt

Has torn will be

Filled with His joy

His love for eternity.

Kelli Conrad

May 2004