Safe Place

I’m not afraid

Of losing ground

I’m choosing where

My life is found

Though enemies

Are all around

I have a place to be

Where I am safe and free

I have no fear

Of consequence

Or fatal whim

Of providence

When fate becomes

A tidal wave

To sweep me off my feet

I never will retreat

In fire fights

In dire distress

My mind is fixed

On nothing less

Fully exposed

Yet fully blessed

This table set for me

Is all I ever need

My hiding place

Cannot be hid

This light has blazed

Since it was lit

Until the day

You bring me home

To mansions made for me

My heart is safe and free

[Therefore let all the faithful pray to you

while you may be found;

surely the rising of the mighty waters

will not reach them.

You are my hiding place;

you will protect me from trouble

and surround me with songs of deliverance.

Psalm 32:6-7]

By Vic Lortz

3/2022