Ezekiel 11:19 “I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them, I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.” (NIV)*

Baby turtle hiding in its shell. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If I accepted a heart of flesh,

then, I’d have to feel…

I’m used to the way I am,

inside this covering of steel.

What would I do with a heart of flesh…

if others wept, would I weep too?

If they hurt, then I might hurt,

and then…what would I do?

Yes, it’s safer in this stone cold shell,

I can hide as life passes by…

so I’m saying no thanks

to that heart of flesh—

safe in my shell am I.

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by Patty Perkins

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Sad to say, that’s where I’d stay without the love of a Savior—saving me from myself and drawing me from this shell.

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*The One Year Bible, November 4, NIV, copyright 1986, Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois.

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