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             Here I am, where I began,
               starting over again,
        open now to everything I once had,
             family, & true friends,
           but now, I am Your daughter,
            & part of Your family,
      a new creation, being transformed
            into Your will for me.

           I look back with an openess
        to see things through Your eyes,
         a willingness to shed defenses,
           & my heart's old disguise,
the pain I've carried, I've been married to,
            'til death do we part,
      but as I learn to die to myself,
          Lord,You renew my heart...
      ...more than in the beginning,
       more than when I surrendered,
    I knew then I needed You, but still,
        so much was yet remembered,
    & now that you've brought me back
    to where you first put me on earth,
  I suddenly see myself clearly through
       Your eyes, & the New Birth!

     I am dead to the foolish things
         I did when I was young,
     I no longer am filled with fear,
         or feel a need to run,
       I am free of the rejection
        than made me try so much
   to win other's empty acceptance,
    because of Your healing touch.

     So for however long I'm here
         until You come again
   or bring me home to be with You,
    Lord, send me to those in pain
  & bondage from their unhealed past,
     & use me to speak the truth,
that we're created to live our lives for You,
    & not waste our fleeting youth.              
                                   ~By Anastazia Rowe~      
                                     Feb 11th, 2004.