Sunday Worship

Restoration by Jim Harris ~ He restores my soul! By gracious means he makes me whole, receives, reshapes, renews, restarts my inward life, whose several parts by disobedience and neglect had run aground, completely wrecked. ~ He brings me back! Directs me to the safest track. In subtle ways he turns me round and takes me back to well-trod ground; the paths I learned at first to walk, the words I used at first to talk. ~ He lights my fire! Rekindles in me strong desire to worship him with all my heart, and not withhold a single part from serving him and loving him, my Shepherd, Saviour, and my King. ~ Partakers Right Mouse click to save this as a mp3 file Partakers

Hello! My name is Jim Harris! This poem, which I’ve called “Restoration”, was written when I was in France in 2003. Struggling to read the Bible in French I was made aware of the subtleties in that seemingly simple word ‘restores’, found in Psalm 23, verse 3 ‘He restores my soul’. Here’s what I wrote about that word at the time. ‘The word ‘restore’ carries more than one meaning. A ‘restaurant’ is where you replenish your energy levels by taking food. Restore also means to put something back into its original condition, or someone back into a broken relationship. It can also be used for stirring something into life, like the old coal fires we used to have. These three verses, based on Psalm 23:3, ‘He restores my soul’, try to reflect these three ideas about our relationship with the Good Shepherd.’ You can view more of Jim's verse at his website ~