MDTS: A Song for Mama Charity

For three days I sat on the front lawn of Mama Charity's "stand" (homestead), watching as my team built her a toilet, as loving sisters showed her the blueprints to the house they would build her in the new year.  This will be the first time she has her own home, the first time she and her five precious children can feel safe and secure in something that she owns.  I played with her kids, I went with her to the well, I spent time enjoying life with her...we were learning how to do family, how to love people truly and fully.

We were interceding over her house, and praying for words.  Out of that came this song.  I wrote it out and gave it to her...she went and read it two, three times.  She seemed to treasure the words.  But I so treasure the time I spent with her...what a beautiful daughter of the King!

May your home be a well-watered garden

All the trees and flowers bloom

where children dance and play with abandon

And men and women know their dreams can come true

May your home be filled with joy and laughter

Fear is gone, and you're free to love

May your family be knit in the heart of Christ

And you always have more than enough

Grow and grow, Grow and thrive

Gone are the days where you simply survive

Gloom is dispelled, see the light that arrives

The King comes to dwell in your home and give life

May your home be like the garden of old

All the fruits are good to eat

where God's heart and perfect will can unfold

Man and God walk together and freely meet

May your home be like the garden of heaven

See His footsteps in the cool of the shade

His Presence palpable, and overwhelming

You'll live with Him forever in His grace

Grow and grow, Grow and thrive

Gone are the days where you simply survive

Gloom is dispelled, see the light that arrives

The King comes to dwell in your home and give life