Bind My Heart

Bind my heart as it tries to wrestle
and with ear-plugs in it ignores
Your glorious whispers and loving attention.
And it craves its own cheering crowd in the stalls.

Bind my heart as it flutters and fails,
and with blinkers on it fools itself to see
one smile from him become a big white dress.
It automatically forgets Your greater caress.

Bind my heart as it turns itself cold.
With a frozen tongue bitter olives become grapes.
With sand-paper fingers it fails to feel,
and imagines Your gifts as smooth as marble are fake.

Please bind my heart that is prone to wander.
Undeceive its senses and teach it more of Your grace.
Help it in Your strength to remember
it is lovingly bound to Christ, and belongs in a far better place.