Poems by Valerie Smith

I Love How You Love Me

I love how you love me Those secret places you speak to You have won my heart With your mercy

I love how you love me Chosen as a grain of sand Carved me into a precious pearl To shine for you in a darkened land

Oh, how I love how you love me You wrote psalms to lure me Sweet words to soften A delicate heart long forgotten

You praised me to lift me up Laid with me in a bed of tears Caressed me, overflowing cup Bathed wounds from tortured years

I love how you love me Desires of my heart you long to give Beckoning with your still small voice To secure a place in my heart to live

A Thousand Tears

And he cried a thousand tears For the kings and queens he’d lost For the unfulfilled plans that went astray For the hearts who knew him not A covenant long forgot The promises in vain His son’s life laid down to pay

So he called to all his children And gathered them anew And lay upon their hearts his battle cry

Take hold your sharpened weapons Of courage; faith and love Wipe out the grip of darkness in your land I promise I will lead you, restore your loss and keep you I ask you please trust my mighty hand

And he cried a thousand tears When his battle-weary children Brought to the father all that he had lost He put his trust before them A call before foundation A remnant worthy of his son’s great cost.

God Calling

Come over here, sit with me, share your heart. I will hold it gently, caress and heal the dents and bruises you so protect.

Come over here, rest in me, share your thoughts. I know the thoughts you have towards me, I long to lift off your anger; you will see me more clearly.

Come over here, share your dreams with me. Loosen your grip, let them take flight in my direction. We will twist and turn together, gathering others along the way to join in the ride and not the chase.

Come over here and love with me. Nestle in and draw from me, I have enough for both of us. My abundance will overflow within you, spilling out into a world of the unknown and forgotten.

Come over here and live within me and I in you. Oh, what a purpose we can share with a power that even angels will envy.

Come over here dear child, your father is calling.

Valerie Smith

Val is a full time Nurse. She is also the author of her debut book, Heart to Heart with God. A ‘heart on sleeve’ conversation with God.

Val also loves to write poems expressing our love for God and His love for us.

She is the mother of two grown-up children and has two wonderful grandchildren who all live close by in one of England’s beautiful counties, North Devon.

Val belongs to a small community Church where she leads a women’s Bible study group and is involved in mentoring young Christians.

https://www.valsmithauthor.com/