This poem reflects on the struggles of leaving behind "the former things". It works well as a congregation ends its Lenten journey, or at a time of change and new commitment in a church's life.

Extract from the poem:

Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.
But it's not that easy Lord, some of us don't want to let go of the former things.?Some of us can't let go,
and for some of us times were so much better back then.

Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.?
Lord, some of us want to let go, but others won't let us.
For some of us those were the glory days and the flowers have long-since faded,
and some of us have lost our way and no longer have the strength.

I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.?
Some of us look at these promises like children gazing through shop windows.
Our noses pressed to the glass, longing and hoping,
desperate for a new thing, for way through this wilderness...

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