Childhood dreams
Goals undefined
Future’s clarity
Waiting, to be defined
Youthful path
Faithful seeds sowed
Love’s tenderness cares
Waiting, harvest so proud
Days lengthen
Filled with hope’s gifts
Efforts bring rewards
Waiting, actions upshift
Tomorrow
Life’s follow-through
Strength in discipline
Waiting, lasting breakthrough
Leaving home
Granted access
Past always teaching
Recipe for success
From Isaiah 30:15: “For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
Father looks upon His design
His perfection draws each detail
Filling darkness with trusted light
Faith now strengthens, no longer frail
Father molds mercy’s truth to shine
His promises to be fulfilled
Sending Shepherd, care for His flock
Faith’s cornerstone, set to rebuild
Father plans enemy’s demise
His victory shall bring glory
Witnessing Teacher’s lesson plans
Faith refreshed with every story
Father pulls strings of righteousness
His forgiving love offers hope
Wiping away sin’s endless debt
Faith grips Savior’s eternal rope
Father calls out from Calvary
His boldness breathes with quiet might
Offering life through Jesus Christ
Faith’s peace, rising on heaven’s flight
From Isaiah 30:20-21: “Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide Himself any longer, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.'”
Extending kindness
Receiving back so much more—
Makes this world go round
Another mountain
Accepting heartfelt wisdom—
Challenge overcome
Sharing life’s story
Seeing goodness in others—
Through each written page
From Psalm 32:7: “You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with glad cries of deliverance.”
With faces toward the rising sun
Lord, share your mercy and forgiveness
Coming to the Cross, with repentance
Humbly laying our transgressions there
On our knees, breaking bread together
In remembrance, Jesus truly cares
Coming to the Cross, seeking its hope
With reverence, looking to our Lord
On our knees, drinking wine together
Singing with praise to His perfect chord
Coming to the Cross, stained with red blood
Accepting Christ as Lord and Savior
On our knees, praising God together
Walking with transforming behavior
With faces toward the rising sun
Lord, share your mercy and forgiveness
From John 11:25-26: “Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in Me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?'”
Overwhelming with darkness
Tomorrow’s vision unseen
Out of life’s impossible
Wondering what faith will mean
Calvary’s light beams ahead
Today offers blessed place
Possible waiting in view
Powering toward Christ’s grace
Prince of Peace offers his hand
Hour of hope at last arrives
Redemption shall be fulfilled
Seeing faith coming alive
Bitter sorrow fades away
In Christ, mercy filled with love
Answers to prayer’s journey
Touching Spirit high above
From John 10:9-10: “I am the gate. Whoever enters by Me will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”
Calling
His army
Prayer warriors march
Father’s mercy moves mountains
Believe
Calling
His name
From earth’s darkness
Receiving Spirit’s timeless grace
Faith
Calling
His Son
Jesus rising above
Walking upon heaven’s waters
Redemption
From Matthew 5:6: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
Just as Jesus teaches
Praying to Father above
Asking in humbleness
Relationship filled with love
Blessed are those who hunger
Seeking truth’s fulfilling hope
Thirsting for righteousness
Father tightens up faith’s rope
Patience shall be required
Waiting for Father’s reply
Following Spirit’s light
View from eagle’s wings on high
Perseverance in prayer
Knocking on heavenly door
Searching for life’s answers
Father fills faith’s inner core
From Luke 11:9-10: “So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Someone in despair
Extending bright light of grace—
Hope fills one more heart
Lost in valley’s depths
Healing’s descending courage—
Quiet peace surrounds
Life’s roller coaster
Leaving peril’s ups and downs—
Straightened and smooth
Sower scattering any seed
Wildly without any foresight
God scatters His Word as planned
His aim, truthful in its flight
Called to sow His righteous seeds
Following a living light
Sharing of God’s Holy Word
Walking in Jesus’ delight
These efforts shall bear His fruit
Quenching the rich, fertile ground
God adds the living water
Patient, His trust to be found
Not every seed shall bloom now
Some will lie quiet and wait
Just as a pine cone pauses
Holds seeds for their proper fate
Spreading God’s Word to others
Using our freedom for good
Allowing Spirit to work
Sowing for Him as we should
Sharing love and forgiveness
Lord’s eternal Word aligned
Taking blessed, scattered seeds
Harvesting fruit of all kinds
From Isaiah 55:10-11: “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”
Originally published July, 2020.
From Isaiah 53:9: “They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.”
Born before light breathes
God’s master blueprint
Only darkness exists
Waiting, His Son’s footprint
Sin breathes at Eden
Perfect light shattered
Tomorrow’s harsh darkness
Righteousness now scattered
From garden’s shadows
Bloody cross awaits
Savior’s light journeys on
From heaven’s open gate
God’s people wander
Darkness covers world
Divine plan’s fulfillment
Messiah’s light unfurled
Light moves against sin
Nailed to rugged tree
Every transgression paid
Saving grace sets man free
From Isaiah 53:10: “Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with affliction. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.”
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