Father's Day Gifts

Wrote this in creativity group today. It was supposed to be a gift from me to God, but it kinda ended up the other way around =) He gives good gifts indeed!

Pearl of Great Price

You are my Papa, I am your girl

You've polished me up

And made me your pearl. 

Lost in the depths of the ocean so vast

Caught in the seaweed

Of the sins of my past. 

Cold and alone, my breath running out

You saw me. "My daughter!"

You let out a shout. 

Leaving behind your place on the sand

You tore off your God clothes 

And plunged in -- a man. 

You swam the way down -- league after league.

Scraped by the coral,

Your hands start to bleed. 

I see you far off -- I hope and I wonder: 

Why come to save me? 

Doubt pulls me under. 

But still you swim on, and soon you are here. 

Breaking me free

From the chains of my fear. 

Then upward we soar! Up towards the light!

My fear is replaced

By joy and delight!

Here is the air! Here is the sun!

Here I'm alive!

Thanks to the One. 

Now on the beach, I fall at your feet. 

Amazed that for me

The whole ocean you've beat. 

Yet you lift me up and whisper real low

All the beautiful things

You want me to know. 

That you are my Papa, I am your pearl,

And nothing could keep you

From your little girl.