Before
Before all of the blessings You have brought to my life
Before reconciliation
Before restoration
Before peace
Before healing
Before I could believe I would make it another day
Before my heart was set free and my mind was still shrouded in darkness and grief
In my isolation
In my pain
In my sin
There was You, Oh Lord
You are the Alpha and Omega
You are my beginning and my end
My life is forever tightly bound with Yours
And before I understood
And even though I did not know
You, Lord, are enough
—
A poem by Rachael Wendy Baulch