This is a poem, written by Renee, a friend and previsouly “unpublished” member of KTM… at least unpublished here, I don’t know about anywhere else. Interesting story about Renee. As I understand it, she and her husband were instrumental in leading Jen and Barbra’s parents to the Lord. So, in a very real way, Renee and Tom are the founders of KTM. Isn’t it neat how God can make things grow over time?
Knocking On My Door
If you knocked on my door today I would see the longing in your eyes
I would see your body emaciated with ribs protruding and I would take you in
Yes if my doorbell rang and you stood before me you beautiful starving child
I would say, “Come in by my fire and let me feed you, I’ll fill out those cheeks so thin…
If you knocked on my door today…
If you were my neighbor, a mother, my friend and came knocking on my door today
I would stop wrapping the dozens of presents I am busily wrapping to place beneath the tree
Yes if you came with your child in hand and pleaded with me for your baby to feed
I would stop my Holiday baking and feed you and give all I could to remove the pain I see
If you knocked on my door today…
If you knocked on my door today so I heard your pleas for a home, a bed, and someone to care
I would cancel my plans for caroling, partying, and all the rest and devote myself to you
I would hold you and comfort you and say how sorry I am and that you are not alone!
But I am so totally wrapped up in wrapping and all the holiday fun I did not hear the knocking
For there was a knocking on my heart’s door today…
‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door,
I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me.’
You sweet Jesus who are no longer a Babe in the manger have come again…. and again and again
Knocking on the door of my heart and saying “Is there room in the Inn for Jesus to be born?”
Can I make my home in your heart, will you take in with me the “least of these, My friends?”
Yes, there WAS a knocking on my door today! Can you hear the knocking too?
