Trusting the Titanic

When man's claim of impossible drained of evidence
The frozen water rushed in
They said he followed instruction
They say he set her aside - her with his smile and her mother's eyes- into the rescue boat

The one that rowed away, carrying freezing souls to a place of dry and safe, to live one more day

They said he searched the ship and icy water for survivors

As warm red slowly crystallized and hearts stopped their beating - he used his last breath to seek out the dying that they might have a chance to live

Not those dying as result of the life thieving cold - but to save those whose souls were sinking long before the unsinkable ship began it's descent

Those whose cause of death was life lived within the lie - that to be the master of your own soul is really living

He was John Harper

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I'm frozen in the how...

How do you jump into the wreckage

Leaving behind that which was entrusted to you

How do you strive and seek to save lives not knowing if that little soul - the one with your eyes and his smile - will know salvation without you?

Trust

...your children I will save - Isaiah 49:25

Trust, that if he's big enough to save me - He's big enough to save them
And understand their souls aren't mine for the saving
They're His

So in the middle of trusting
Their mine to love
To model for, to challenge, to teach, to show grace
Mine to offer hope, to encourage, to build up, to hold
And mine to [someday] release
Her, with my eyes of green and daddy's smile
Him, with my smile and daddy's eyes
So for this moment that they're mine
I'll do my best, ask for forgiveness for the rest
And trust