Love is patient, love is kind, Fear has but itself to mind. Love is generous, humble, low, Fear must clutch and thrust below. Love is gracious, casts out self, But fear drinks from an empty well. Hot wrath lives afar from love, Fear makes a wolf of any dove. Love keeps no account of sins, […]
Weight on weight of misery The untold tale of years; Does earth spin on an empty loom, A weaving wind, a speechless doom, Unhindered by our tears? Or somewhere in the mind of God, Recorded, every unheard cry; Unfettered faith and outstretched hand That brings the Fear of Jacob nigh? That speaks beyond the veil […]
Outweighed the monuments of man, By one ascendant flower-spire, While all the nations’ labor builds Heap upon heap, fuel for the fire. Beyond the mightiest palace mount Shall stand a people, stars aflame Within Thy heart, as living stones, Each built a temple for Thy name. Now choose us for Thy temple, Lord; Unite our […]
Links upon links of broken chains, Dust upon dust, line upon line; Each but the memory of a name, Man’s life, one syllable of time. But tell me how He names the stars And marks each sparrow when it falls; Of One who stores wind-ridden fire, Yet gathers loaves, each basketful. Of Him who seeks […]
In every place our feet have trod To walk alone where few men dwell, Through meadows sweet, by waters calm, Far from the tortured spires of hell. Returning from faith’s battle lines, His Word, our only trusted sword; Through loss and sacrifice refined We raise an altar to our Lord. Let others take their stolen […]
“The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord.” How quickly the account has passed From words of love and Sarah’s laugh, From converse as a man with friends, To trembling for a weight of sin. What silent tremor in the air As if the earth itself could fear, […]
We raise our eyes as Jacob did To view the high ascent of praise; Great unseen angels now appear Afar, how awesome is this place! And there, undwelt by any man, The emblems of uncounted years Arise, each pinnacled and towered And terraced, lit with silent stars. And shall we walk within the gate, Shall […]
“And God said, ‘I will be with you.’” And shall we fear to walk within The shadowed heart of evil flame? Great unseen stones raise their dead hands, Harsh whispers of a silent fear Where lost men grope without a name, And yet the staff of God we bear. The shrouding mist about us winds […]
“After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.” As Jacob, at the end of his desires, found life; From battle with his brother, freed from all he had; So may this be the measure of our toil […]
“The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously; it must not go out.” Thy kindled fire, Thy Spirit’s flame, The first dawn of God’s presence near; The Sun of Righteousness ascends Within our hearts, His sacred stair, Faith’s incense of uplifted prayer. Our hands outstretched, earth’s lamplit stars Shine through the dark-veiled temple […]