My Ingratitude

I am so sorry
For my ingratitude.
So sorry for my unbelief.
So sorry!
Please forgive me!
Lead me into the sea of faith.
Drown me in belief.
Bury me deep
In abandon.
Plunge me down
Into the depths of trusting grace
And leave me there
Till I'm cured.
And then raise me 
To your purposes, 
Oh God!
I pray.
And leave nothing 
Of the thing that thinks
That it can solve itself.
It can't. I see.
But something clings to the vines 
That wrap themselves to lesser things.
And they will fail.
They are a trap.
And still
I am curled up 
In their deceit.
Oh fool!
Oh treacherous, 
Forked tounged snake!
Release your grasp
And let Him sweep you away
Into all you are,
Into all that waits 
Into the reality of that world
Which lies beyond 
What you can see.
Oh please!
Please forgive me
For my ingratitude!
And free me 
From my lesser self.
Make me ONE
With Thee!