This Peter, this Paul

This Peter, this Paul

by Joel Howard

see the book of Acts

This Peter, this Paul

Denied Christ, despised God

Is this the people 

Is this the kind

You chose 

You'd find?

This the messenger

This the one

Failed thrice

Killed ones

Is this the follower

kindled fire

All the earth

To inspire?

Failure helped

Boldness channeled

This the foundation

Of heaven's helper

This Peter, this Paul

Once the least

Now incredibly useful

Lest the world

Think she denied

Once to many

She will find

Lest the man

Who cursed God

Think he small

Too small to climb

This the Peter

This the Paul

The saint and sinner

In us all

No persona

No individual

Has gone too far

To bounce from fall

To leap from ashes

To climb from pain

To regain ground

And live again

This the Peter 

This the Paul

The saints whose Savior

is Lord of all