In the Wilderness

Temptations

All about

Crashing upon us

With God’s help, resist

Discipline

Life’s Storms

Sailing

Among shipwrecks

Our Pilot navigates

Always bringing us home

Courage

Always

Gracious

Blessing us

Making His face

To shine upon us

God

The German-inspired poetry style of Elfchen (or Elevenie) contains five lines of poetic verse, usually without the use of rhyming verses.  A total of 11 words are used with a sequence of one, two, three, and four words before ending with a single word in the final verse.