Our Power

If all the focus of my life’s on me,
it is because already from the start,
You’ve planned and forged and launched my destiny,
and chased and captured my reluctant heart.

O God, I think I run my life, but You
are so much more in charge than little I,
You throw a curve in everything I do,
You chose when I was born and when I die.

Though with Your infinite love for me You fight,
still You have freely made me free to choose,
I can’t love You unless free to do right,
or to do wrong and all our love to lose.

O Lord, with all my power I freely pray
with all Your power You help me choose Your way.

                        -- by Pete Voelz       5/2/12