Wrapped in Forgiveness

Imagine having unpaid tennants
Damaging your precious home
That is us without repentance
For Satan moves in to ravage what's owned

The greatest thing we possess
Is our ability to choose
And satan hopes we'll not notice
That when we sin there's so much we lose

 Imagine having unpaid tennants Damaging your precious home

That is us without repentance

For Satan moves in to ravage what's owned

The greatest thing we possess

Is our ability to choose

And satan hopes we'll not notice

That when we sin there's so much we lose 

The invitation to repent

Is rarely for chastisement

But a plea to turn a life around

Where open loving arms are found

Imagine the Lord's merciful embrace

Warmly encircling, holy, and safe

His loving arms ever out stretched and open

Offering a higher way of life to hope in

Those living riotously can change and begin

To be spiritually wrapped in forgiveness within

No matter how selfish, how forsaken the sin

Our Savior is eager that we be forgiven

Who'd not run against the wind and even swim upstream

To come unto Christ where the gospel fruit is then seen

Thus, He who humbly submits and asks for the Father's will

Can know, feel, and find a peace that's sweetly still

Since repentance is a journey, not a one-time event

We petition daily and weekly partake of the sacrament

There to check on our progress as though on a mountain peak

Where we can see life more clearly through the spirit that we seek

Oft still to the repentant, Godly sorrow remains

To remind us never again to do what truly pains

Ever as we're laboring against the devil's tightening bands

We can find Him who has graven us in the palms of His hands

Repentance always means brighter days lie ahead

Midst a residue of past mistakes filtering in our head

Forsaking our sins requires restoration and time

Unto the healing peace of conscience as the anguish subsides

Let us take counsel and in good works be about

Putting off the natural man who would that we doubt

Let us be unselfish, honest, and more pure

Being patient and kind that our spirituality endure

Let us ever hear the bidding of our Lord calling our name

And pray that each in our family will in deed do the same

Ever we may know our Savior infinitely understands

And reaches out to us offering His sure healing hands 

Repent... That I May Heal You
Elder Neil L. Andersen
November Ensign, 2009, 40