“Ladies, and Gentlemen…”

A new improved John Brodeur
What exactly does this mean?
A look behind the straw tin man
Into the things unseen

Weakness, shame and sin are there
And darkness does abound
But where these are and where they hide
My Lord, the Light, is found

A new improved John Brodeur
He’s the one that’s always been
Beyond the mask, behind the front
Where vice has fed within

Nothing there I bear as pride
Discovered, it destroys
But when I die to who I am
My Savior speaks his joys

A new improved John Brodeur
Truly nothing new at all
A broken man with too few plans
Whose heart awaits a call

In bitter days of loneliness
Confusion, lies I trust
But He is there and by His grace
My past is turned to dust

A new improved John Brodeur
A man disgraced, eschewed
Whose noble plans slipped through his hands
And inner storms imbued

A wasteland filled with blackest filth
A sinner gone astray
But He, the Father, greets me there
And with Him grants me stay

A new improved John Brodeur
Not at all the man you thought
A man unworthy – one unclean
Unlearned, green, untaught

How much I loved my straw tin man
The hero, savior, saint
But straw and tin can’t change what is
The soul my sins can taint

A new improved John Brodeur
In the end it’s by God’s grace
The Spirit of the Living God
Affirms his dwelling place

And therein lies the secret truth
Of newness, life, and love
To be a new creation here
Demands the things above

A new improved John Brodeur
Clearly not my own design
The manliness I sense within
Betrays a life Divine

A new improved John Brodeur
In my weakness He is there
Unchanging God, He changes me
And in His life I share

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