His yoke is easy

His yoke is easy                                                                                         
 
It was once my habit to find myself always guilty
while never quite owning up to just who I am.
 
Now I answer only to the all-forgiving One.
I lived in fear no one could love me as I am.
 
Then I became a lover of the Essence of Love,
Who cannot do otherwise.  Shamed repeatedly
 
by my imperfections, now I serve the Perfect One
Who declares He and I are one. 
 
How I respond these latter days    
to the travails of life, signals to me clearly
 
who I am at the moment serving –
my small, frightened self or my merciful Lord.
 
O child of God, His yoke is easy
and His burden is light.