Oh Comforter

Oh Comforter

Oh God of all comfort

Please shelter me

I’m like the scared child hiding under the tree

Rid me of all earthly comforts

be ever close to me 

For your shoulders are broader than any others

  

Oh Comforter

Oh God of all comfort

Please shelter me

I’m so sorry Father

Forgive me for I have sinned

For I have often craved comforts deep within

The soothing voice of a friend

The soft sound of rain

The tears I’ve longed to cry but instead I refrain

Only you comfort me 

My song shall rise to thee

Oh Comforter

Oh God of all comfort

Please shelter me

I long for things 

Like coffee and bread

I think very little of the judgment or wrath

Yet on your bosom I must rest

And lean upon your staff   

For you alone bled and died 

On that cruel cross my Lord you were crucified 

Oh Comforter

Oh God of all comfort

Please beckon me

You alone are God, announced to Moses as the

I am that I am

May I accept your comforting love even at 3am

It was not the dog barking

Or the wind chime that caused my eyes to pop

It was your love wooing me to pray and let the weight of the day finally drop

I collapse into your presence

In your arms I rest

I lay myself down surrendered

My life on your chest 

my sorrows turned to joy like Job these trials were all just a test  

Oh Comforter

Oh God of all comfort

Please bolster me

My dwelling place

My home the only comfort I truly need

Your Word my sustenance your scriptures my soul receives

I say farewell to the earthly comforts and a life of ease

For what I have in your nearness oh Comforter is where my spirit finds peace