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  ✨ What Mercy Does by Pia Hjorth 🕊️ Introduction There are moments when words arrive like healing rain—soft, steady, and full of grace. What Mercy Does is one such offering. This poem came from a place of reflection, where pain met compassion, and where the divine whispered gently into the broken places. I wrote it as a prayer, a promise, and a reminder: mercy is not distant. It draws near. 📜 The Poem ✨ What Mercy Does by Pia Hjorth Mercy doesn’t count the cost — It pays it, full and free. It doesn’t ask if you deserve, It says, “Come back to Me.” Mercy covers shame with linen light, It speaks when guilt would shout. It holds your hand through darkest night, And never casts you out. Mercy rebuilds what fear destroyed, It plants where sorrow grew. It doesn’t flinch at ruined things — It makes all things new. ——————- 🌿 Reflection Each stanza speaks to a truth I’ve wrestled with and returned to: that mercy is not earned, but given. It doesn’t wait for perfection. It steps into the...

 Create with your HEART and SWORD A visual-poetic meditation by Pia Hjorth 🎨 Image Description A watercolor painting of a female warrior with auburn hair, bowed in reverence. Her sword rests quietly in hand, and a glowing heart radiates from her chest. The background swirls with blues, reds, and golds — a storm of emotion and light. ✍️ Poem ⚔️ I Will Fight for You, My Lord Inspired by Psalm 44 | by Pia Hjorth I will fight for You, My Lord Almighty — not with sword, not with bow, but with trust and trembling praise.I do not boast in my strength. I do not lean on my weapons. I lean on You — even when You feel far.Every day, I praise You. Even now, when shame covers me like dust, and enemies laugh.You have broken us in pieces. You have left us for wild dogs to eat. You have covered us with the darkness of death.But still — I cry out. Wake up, Lord! Do not turn away forever. Do not forget our pain. Do not leave us in silence.Save us, not because we are worthy, but because You are fait...